How To Use Sister-in-law In A Sentence
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She is also survived by her sons, daughters and sister-in-law.
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And your sister-in-law, I think all she knows of you is the squeak, that is what I was saying before.
Heartfire
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I have a wife, a son, a sister, a sister-in-law, three brothers-in-law, a mother, a father-in-law, a nephew, and a niece.
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His brother now had to assume responsibility for them as well as for his own growing family, particularly when it soon became evident that his sister-in-law, Ethel, could not cope.
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My sister-in-law has recovered from the shock, and we feel safe again now that Pepe is no longer in the house.
An unexpected visit
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[*] Though the judge's portrait, reprinted in White Heat, suggests the very antithesis of Byronic romance, it was very likely Lord in whose arms Emily Dickinson was reputedly once seen "reclining" in the Homestead parlor by her scandalized neighbor/sister-in-law Susan Dickinson.
The Woman in White
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Some are touchingly intimate: my sister-in-law received a set of pastel-colored cotton panties from her middle-school homeroom students, and to my utter amazement was utterly unamazed.
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Aside from my life being turned upside down with my mother having been ill and now with my sister-in-law being in palliative care in Halifax, things have been somewhat topsy-turvy.
PhotHunter: Downside Up « Mudpuddle
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The witch doctor poisons a chicken, and, from the way the chicken staggers before dropping dead, the witch doctor determines that the rash has been caused by the client's sister-in-law bewitching him.
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With her silent calm, his sister-in-law sighed, leaning against the doorpost.
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That group includes affines, based upon the theological idea that as husband and wife were one, marriage to a sister-in-law was as incestuous as marriage to a sister.
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We were astonished that my wife's mother and my sister-in-law were very vague in their memories of what to do in the first six months," Gabrieli says.
Babies can cause 'momnesia'
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Subsequently, Wu could not adapt to life in Singapore and often felt that she was being mistreated by her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, whom she called "calculative".
Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
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So this could include two brothers fighting or a brother-in-law snatching his sister-in-law's purse.
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Brother Heffernan is survived by his brother, George and sisters Eileen, Marie and Phil, brothers-in-law, sister-in-law, nephews and nieces.
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But Margaret, thought Laura, could never emulate her light-hearted sister-in-law.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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She learned it from her sister-in-law who grew up in Surat.
Chunda
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It's a pride that comes across most potently in a beautifully staged scene where Stanley listens unseen while his sister-in-law denigrates what she calls his animalistic, subhuman behaviour.
Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories
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Bentley's Miscellany at beginning of 1837, and commences “Oliver Twist”; Quarterly Review predicts his speedy downfall; pecuniary position at this time; moves from Furnival's Inn to Doughty Street; death of his sister-in-law Mary Hogarth; his friendships; absence of all jealousy in his character; habits of work; riding and pedestrianizing; walking in London streets necessary to the exercise of his art 49
Life of Charles Dickens
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My sister-in-law Joy has another twist on this white / yellow / butter / salt / sweet comfort food thing.
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One wonders a little how far he and his sister-in-law will 'foregather' when he returns.
The Shuttle
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If you'll believe me, that woman once turned her second-cousin's sister-in-law into a mushroom, and somebody picked her, and she was made into catsup, which is a thing no man likes to have happen in his family!
Little Saint Elizabeth, and Other Stories
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His sister-in-law, my great-aunt, is the last one left in his generation.
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I called my sister-in-law, who is an elementary school teacher, and told her what was going on.
How to Talk so Kids Can Learn
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Meanwhile, I'll be collating and stapling application forms (just in case my wife or sister-in-law think I'm not doing any work).
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If I think it’s necessary to bypass you and call your sister-in-law, I will.
No Way Out
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But the fortune-teller had a sister-in-law who lived near the bonesetter, and she knew better.
The Bonesetter's Daughter
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We got a phone call from our former sister-in-law who asked if we would take Scooter, a great cockapoo / border collie who was 8 years old.
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Eager for adventure, he joined Southey and Lloyd in their scheme of pantisocracy, to which we have already referred; and when that failed for want of money, he married the sister-in-law of Southey -- Miss Fricker, of Bristol.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
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When Khan shows up in San Francisco to join his younger brother, who left India as an undergraduate, he is unselfconsciously shepherded around town by his sister-in-law, an academic who favors the kind of severe Muslim Brotherhood-chic headscarf that doesn't reveal a single strand of hair.
The Accidental Terrorist
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The contempt for outsiders repelled his sister-in-law - and drove her to seek a freer life for herself and her daughters.
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A father-in-law may not sleep with his daughter-in-law (Lev 18: 15), just as a brother-in-law may not sleep with his sister-in-law (Lev 18: 16), but in-law incest rules are suspended for the purpose of the levirate.
Tamar: Bible.
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My sister-in-law Joan, who was also an usherette at the cinema, said she used to watch him painting in the foyer while at work.
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He is survived by his nephews, nieces, brother-in-law, sister-in-law and by other relations.
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She toys with the dangerous idea of matchmaking her spirited and charming sister-in-law with Zhang.
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China Daily/Reuters A man held his sister-in-law hostage at knife-point on a street in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, China.
Asia in Photos
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He is mourned by his brother Peter, sisters Madge, Marie and Bernie, sister-in-law, brothers-in-law, nephews, nieces, relatives and friends.
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He turned and went into the kitchen and asked his sister-in-law when his brother would be home.
COME TO MECCA
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Her husband was away to Ambala, while her brother-in-law and sister-in-law had gone to market.
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His born-again brother resents him, his sister-in-law looks like his mother, his ex-girlfriend has a daughter that has had as many birthdays as he has spent years away and his father had a secret den.
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The family includes his wife, two daughters, his father, his cousin and sister-in-law.
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My brother- and sister-in-law had my family over for dinner, and while I was there, I noticed their incredibly powerful blender.
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Then Christmas came and I was carted off for a week by my brother and sister-in-law.
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My sister-in-law, who is a qualified nutritionist, was impressed by the fact that instead of my usual bacon, sausage and egg for breakfast I was now pigging out on fat-free yoghurts and masses of fruit.
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Dick, his arm about Ernestine in brotherly fashion, said good night to Graham where one of the divided ways led to the watch tower, and continued on with his pretty sister-in-law toward her quarters.
CHAPTER XIV
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I'd like to think this is Hector and Andromache, but we know from Euripedes that she made it out of Troy alive (carried out, kicking and screaming, on the shoulder of some Greek warrior), along with her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, Hecuba and Cassandra.
Lance Mannion:
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A sister-in-law who preceded her in the shoeshine business spent a week teaching her the trade.
A New Yorker Who Shines
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Some accounts describe people receiving valuable information paranormally: For example, a woman was involved in a custody battle regarding her deceased sister-in-law's children.
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Wendy's brother and sister-in-law were honeymooning in Thailand.
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The glances Stella and Alexis exchanged seemed more intimate than was usual between a brother-in-law and a sister-in-law.
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It's a pride that comes across most potently in a beautifully staged scene where Stanley listens unseen while his sister-in-law denigrates what she calls his animalistic, subhuman behavior.
Fore, right!
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That group includes affines, based upon the theological idea that as husband and wife were one, marriage to a sister-in-law was as incestuous as marriage to a sister.
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At that time, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was the duchess of York, sister-in-law of Edward the abdicator.
CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2002
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In the morning, I called my sister-in-law and told her to come back over.
Teed Off
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Then my sister-in-law calls panicking about me being preggers and being exposed to the chicken pox.
Love is...
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He lives with and sponges off his brother and sister-in-law, surviving on free samples at the supermarket, and gambling away what little money he has.
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He looked inquisitively at his future sister-in-law and she nodded in affirmation.
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But Margaret, thought Laura, could never emulate her light-hearted sister-in-law.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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He is survived by his daughter Geraldine, brother Thomas, sister-in-law, brothers-in-law, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends to whom deepest sympathy is extended.
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Unpublished letters by William Wordsworth's sister-in-law offering fresh insights into the life and times of the archetypical Lake District poet have been handed over to The Wordsworth Trust.
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My sister-in-law didn't approve of me," Mildred said quietly.
BREACH OF DUTY
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Waldemar Ruiz had called his sister-in-law after he shot his wife with a small handgun, Hammann said.
Chron.com Chronicle
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He felt that he was dying -- "The taste of death," he said to his sister-in-law, "is already on my tongue -- _I taste death_; and who will be near to support my Constance if you go away?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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Elizabeth Bowes Lyon was mother to a queen, wife to a king, sister-in-law to another king.
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A grieving pensioner was mugged by a violent thug on the way to her sister-in-law's funeral.
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I with salon highlights in my hair, my sister-in-law with Mercurochrome streaks in hers (the dark red color stains it radical pink), I with diamonds on my ring finger, she with jewels in her soul.
French Word-A-Day:
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Going to my sister-in-law's baby shower wasn't exactly my idea of a well-spent afternoon.
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His wife is gradually losing her marbles; his sister-in-law is a dippy alcoholic.
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My prospective sister-in-law was twenty years of age, wore tight mini skirts and low cut blouses.
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On the way home on the train, my brother read a racing form, my sister-in-law and I gossiped, and we were all grateful we didn't have to move.
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Kevin yanks his cell phone from his pocket and calls his sister-in-law in Queens, the wife of his brother Joe.
Zebratown
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In the end, my sister-in-law made an appointment for him, and told him to stop being so pathetic.
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My sister-in-law and I once had a blast installing a dimmer switch.
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Fire energy when you say "Hi" to someone in a supermarket, to your waiter in the cafe, to your sister-in-law or the guy who fixes the photocopier in your office.
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An outsider, because of her birth (the result of her father's adulterous relationship) and by nature, she confides in her diary, which is read by her sister-in-law with unfortunate consequences.
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The Dowager met it, taking her grieving sister-in-law under her wing.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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There have been a few representations in English within this time and a considerable number in Italian, our operatic institutions being quick, as a rule, to put it upon the stage whenever they have at command a soprano leggiero with a voice of sufficient range and flexibility to meet the demands of the extraordinary music which Mozart wrote for the Queen of Night to oblige his voluble-throated sister-in-law, Mme. Hofer, who was the original representative of that character.
A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
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I dedicate these goals to my sister-in-law who recently gave birth and the victims of the Costa Concordia," Totti added in a halftime TV interview, referring to the capsized cruise ship off the Tuscan coast.
The Seattle Times
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It's also the choice of our sister-in-law, who's celebrating a birthday, and the choice of several other women who'll be in the audience.
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Perhaps you do not know that she was my sister-in-law, and the chief person in depriving me of my home and property, and Miss Sahiba, I've so often longed to tell you that the house you rented is the one in which I was born.
Daughters of India
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Roby the ministerialist, sitting at the end of the table between his sister-in-law and Mrs. Happerton, was very confidential respecting the Government and parliamentary affairs in general.
The Prime Minister
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My sister-in-law has lived in Sydney Australia for her entire adult life, 40 years now, and on a trip to visit us in Cleveland in the late 80s she went off the the Giant Eagle grocery, only to return 30 minutes later having left a basket with the manager.
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When I was in Chicago, my sister-in-law kept complaining to her milkman about what she called the 'cowy' smell to her milk.
Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography
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About seven years ago, I met a woman from Montreal, the sister-in-law of a friend, who was young and healthy and normal in every way, except that she refused to breast-feed her children.
The Case Against Breast-Feeding
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Richard Abruzzo's sister-in-law, Sandra Abruzzo, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, said she had been told the balloonists had suffered "an issue with the electrical" components in the balloon, and speculated that the loss of contact could possibly be related to that.
Richard Abruzzo And Carol Rymer Davis Missing In European Balloon Race
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Deepest sympathy is extended to his brother, sisters, sister-in-law, nephews, nieces, grand-nieces, grand-nephews, relatives and a wide circle of friends.
