How To Use great-uncle In A Sentence
- Sons don’t resemble their fathers in every detail, I’ve noticed it time and time again, and there’s many a woman brought to bed of a son who is profoundly thankful for that fact, and expends a great deal of her postpartum energy assuring the sprog’s tata that the sprog is a dead ringer for her great-uncle Lucius Tiddlypuss. The First Man in Rome
- His great-uncle started the business in the mid-19th century when he moved to Bradford from Turkey to trade in opium for the pharmaceutical trade, wheat, barley, fur and mohair.
- She had never been brought face to face with her great-uncle, and never devoted any conscious thought to him.
- Another of his great-uncles was called Richard, whose son drowned as a small child and whose wife was so upset by the loss she ended up in a mental asylum.
- Because of the family's tradition of taking the name of one's parent of the same gender, her brother was the only Preston among many Scotts, more Stuarts, a scatter of MacLaughlins, and one Ishimoto, a great-uncle Dannan remembered with great fondness. THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
- The greater truth about America, however, for virtually all the writers in this collection would lie in the faith of the great-uncle of African-American novelist Charles Johnson.
- Those are the ones I saw my great-uncle Carl grow, pouring water from a washtub into the soil around the melons and watching the stalks suck it up like a vacuum cleaner.
- Jacob's Gift is a family album, containing portraits of the author's mother and two remoter relatives, great-uncles.
- And then in a titratable manner, a gradual manner, really reintroduce Marisleysis and the great-uncle. CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Child Psychologist Dr. Jon Shaw Discusses Developments in Elian Gonzalez Case - April 22, 2000
- Gaius Octavius, as Augustus was originally known, was 18 when in 43 BC his great-uncle, the dictator Julius Caesar, was assassinated.
