How To Use Great-uncle In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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She had never been brought face to face with her great-uncle, and never devoted any conscious thought to him.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Jacob's Gift is a family album, containing portraits of the author's mother and two remoter relatives, great-uncles.
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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
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Gaius Octavius, as Augustus was originally known, was 18 when in 43 BC his great-uncle, the dictator Julius Caesar, was assassinated.
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i was raised in anchorage and edwin boyd johnson is actually my great-uncle. so, i got to view photos of my home town and a painting of my g-uncle's i had not seen yet. thanks a lot!
Albloggerque
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Joanna died in a violent robbery when I was three, and I continued to live with my great-aunt and great-uncle for two more years, before I was adopted by Kathryn, the only person I think of as “Mom.”
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
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Is this why my great-uncle waded ashore at Gallipoli, and my father fought in the Middle East, and my uncle spent years as a POW?
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His grandfather and great-uncles had also served the Emperor.
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They tried to convince Walter that his two great-uncles were thieves, and that Walter should tell them where the money was hidden.
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For a while he lived with his great-uncle and great-aunt, while his mother and grandmother worked for rich families.
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Joanna died in a violent robbery when I was three, and I continued to live with my great-aunt and great-uncle for two more years, before I was adopted by Kathryn, the only person I think of as “Mom.”
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
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In 1998 I visited the graves of two of my great-uncles in Northern France.
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Was my great-uncle Brendan related to St. Brendan, the intrepid Irish monk who may have sailed to Newfoundland in the eighth century?
Tracing My Roots and Coming Up With Dirt
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Their thoughts are on their neighbours and families, with great-uncles figuring prominently in a couple of stories.
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Born in New York in 1905, he was only nine years old when he began an apprenticeship with great-uncle Ciani, who made violins, mandolins, and flat-top guitars.
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Great-uncle Mick Mindel, born in 1910, lives in the East End, and leaves school early to work as an apprentice cutter in the tailoring trade.
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When childhood tales of that great-uncle never returning from post-war Soviet imprisonment pulsed again in his mind as they had done, faintly though steadily, since he'd arrived in the city, Connie laid down his knife and fork and brought a hand up to his chin, hoping his arm would be enough to obstruct the Goethe-Institut emblem across his chest.
A Bear Hunt in Riga
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He had learned his trade from a great-uncle, whose father had worked for the crowned heads of Europe before the evil plagues of Communism, Fascism and Socialism had swept most of them away.
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Maybe it was just the fact that I grew up near the ‘old home places’ but I knew a great-uncle and a great-aunt when they were well into their nineties.
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She said: ‘I didn't know much about my great-uncle, he died so young and was the oldest of my grandmother's brothers.'
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Well, I have a photo of those two great-uncles, probably from around 1919.
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Which explains her reference to seeking similarities with her mother in the features of her great-uncle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maybe it was just the fact that I grew up near the ‘old home places’ but I knew a great-uncle and a great-aunt when they were well into their nineties.
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The oldest sister, Sarah, got greatly involved in tinsel painting and resurrected the stencils of their great-uncle, Bill Crowell.
Bird Cloud
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His great-uncle was Alfred Domett (Browning's "Waring"), who was at one time Prime Minister of New Zealand.
Modern British Poetry
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You reported that a couple of the great-uncles involved had drunk driving arrests.
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When she was younger her mother had shown her photographs of her great-uncle and told stories of him.
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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
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Apparently my brother looks an awful lot like one of the great-uncles.
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Marie-Antoinette, born on the day of the Lisbon earthquake, had arrived at court much like her great-grandmother Madame the regent was her great-uncle.
THE DIAMOND
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Obama's great-uncle was part of an Army division that liberated the Ohrdruf forced labor camp, a subdivision of Buchenwald.
Obama discusses Middle East peace process with Elie Wiesel
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Riga gave them this, especially Connie, who knew it not as the Latvian capital but rather as the infamous postmark from which the final letter from a long-lost great-uncle was mailed in 1944.
A Bear Hunt in Riga
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Augustus himself owed much of his rise to his adoption as a seventeen-year-old by his great-uncle Julius Caesar.62 In 13 BC, once Gaius and Lucius had reached the age of seven and four, respectively, the Roman mint issued a coin featuring the emperor on one side, and on the other a tiny fleshy-featured bust of Julia, her hair neatly arranged in the nodus, flanked by the heads of her two infant boys.
Caesars’ Wives
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As if all that weren't enough, Ross has a host of uncles and aunts, great-uncles and great aunts all thinking the world of him, too - as well as all his father Paul's relatives.
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Circuit in Atlanta unanimously dismissed great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez's appeal of a lower court ruling earlier this year.
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It was in 1961, and Croetine's uncle-my great-uncle-had been appointed to a cardinalship and was then stationed at the Vatican.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
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In the Native American language Fox, uncles, great-uncles, and nephews are all called by the same term.
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The smallest group, the oldest generation that included grandparents, great-aunts, and great-uncles, and occasionally a great-grandparent, took up only a few chairs.
Shock of Gray
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She had been farm-servant to my mother's brother -- James Hepburn, thy great-uncle as was; she were a poor, friendless wench, a parish 'prentice, but honest and gaum-like, till
Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 2
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His namesake, his great-uncle Anthony, was an alcoholic who made a small fortune smuggling Canadian whisky during Prohibition.
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Technically, they are great-aunts and great-uncles, but when talking about them or addressing them directly, I call them aunt or uncle.
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There are four pictures of her mum, plus her great-grandfather, her great-gran and two great-uncles.
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It's that month where you get to see all the family you never you knew you had - the intolerable cousins, the favorite aunt, the grandparents, nieces, nephews, uncles and even the great-uncle you thought had died last year.
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Reminds me of a funny comment a great-uncle shared, that as a boy he came home from school and proudly announced, "I'm the smartest one in the dumb row!
In Eugene, Palin says she eats granola too
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Also in the room are stone blocks that belonged to Tracy's father and paper dolls made by her great-uncle, as well as a whimsical German Noah's ark and several black rag dolls.
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When your great-aunt, great-uncle and two cousins are thesps, plus, as he puts it, ‘your grandmother is the greatest Shakespearean actress in all Lithuania, you are hardly likely to drift into the fish trade’.
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In the year 1896, my great-uncle, one of the first Catholic priests of aboriginal blood, put the call out to his parishioners that they should gather at Saint Joseph's wearing scapulars and holding missals.
Excerpt: The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
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My great-uncle Rudolf, his wife Magarete and their children Klara and Klaus-Martin, were some of the others.
Jeff Kelly Lowenstein: Kristallnacht Anniversary Has Special Meaning This Year
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Her great-uncle had wanted to marry a girl from Elmville way back when, and she ran away and was never seen again.
So Much Pretty
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A week later Adam got a letter saying he was the sole beneficiary under the will of his late great-uncle.
