How To Use Stepfather In A Sentence
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My stepfather was strict and didn't let us have friends in the house; he physically abused me but not sexually.
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In 1934 he moved to Vancouver with his mother and stepfather.
Times, Sunday Times
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The old grandfather had died in the meantime, so that he was dependent on the food supplied by his stepfather and uncles, and they had to expostulate with him on what they called his shark-like voracity.
Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends
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At home, his bond with his stepfather contributed to his benign and affectionate feelings toward men.
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Alexis, violently shuddering, stood half hidden by her stepfather's bulk, a scarecrow in Craig's navy blazer.
A THEORY OF RELATIVITY
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Now in her 30s, between the ages of 9 and 18, Samantha was repeatedly sexually abused by her stepfather.
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Today, the German smooth-haired pinscher is considered the stepfather of several German dog breeds, including the miniature pinscher, wire-haired breeds such as the schnauzers and affenpinschers, and the popular Doberman pinscher.
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When Leila was seven years old, her stepfather ran out of fuel when mowing, leaving a large rectangle of unmown orchard grass.
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That was the only time I ever saw my stepfather open the footlocker.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad
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The paradoxical tragedy of knowing this, condemns him to being given to the terrorists by his stepfather, assuring his silence this way.
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She remembered a remoteness in her stepfather; she saw in him the figure of a man conflicted about involving himself emotionally in the activities of his children.
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The girl had been molested frequently by her stepfather from the age of eight.
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There was something else which she would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the air in the direction of the Doctor's [i.e. her stepfather's room], but a fresh convulsion seized her and choked her words.
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This isn't something he's looking forward to, not because he dislikes schoolhe is in fact an eager studentbut because he doesn't get along with his stepfather, a South? ern Pacific supervisor named Rudy Hollister.
Excerpt: Crossers by Philip Caputo
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If her stepfather goes on helping her out he is colluding in her self-destructive behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gingerly, Jack took his stepfather's wrist and felt the light fluttering of his pulse.
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Rylander's stepfather is Beaumont police officer James Martin.
Grief for beloved Marine
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Today, the German smooth-haired pinscher is considered the stepfather of several German breeds, including affenpinschers.
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It's lunchtime for Timmy Armstrong and his stepfather is cutting up prepared venison for the little boy.
Whitetail News Roundup
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My stepfather has apparently gone a bit churchy in his old age.
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It would not be an easy relationship for the new stepfather.
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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Finding no solace at home, he is taunted, bullied and beaten by a pugilistic stepfather and eventually sent by his sympathetic, but passive, mother to a private boarding school to study his sixth form.
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She said Cito that's what she called her stepfather, but I expect you know that already, don't you?
In the Presence of the Enemy
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Born in London the posthumous son of a clergyman and trained by his stepfather as a bricklayer, Jonson became a mercenary, then an actor and leading playwright.
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Gingerly, Jack took his stepfather's wrist and felt the light fluttering of his pulse.
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Another inhibition for Sophia, whose stepfather has dowered her with an enormous amount of money.
Naked Cruelty
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We exclude other types of fathers, such as stepfathers and social fathers, because the patterns of investment in and relationship to children of these men can be different from those of biological fathers.
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His stepfather was an autoworker, while his mother became a housewife and sometimes worked as a sales-person at department stores.
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ROANOKE - The stepfather of a missing Roanoke toddler has been charged with felony child neglect.
News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
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My stepfather was strict and didn't let us have friends in the house; he physically abused me but not sexually.
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That is the unacknowledged stepfather of rave culture.
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Even worse were the faces of his friends, his stepfather, Stephen and Baldwin de Hodnet, his conscience-stricken cousins Madog and Hywel.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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The girl had been molested frequently by her stepfather from the age of eight.
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Police say the toddler's stepfather admitted to inserting what he called the blessed needles in a series of bizarre rituals.
CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2009
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Tenor Michael König acquits himself well as Katerina's mercurial lover Serguéi, and Ludovít Ludha, in the role of Katerina's abusive stepfather Boris, summons that notorious Shostakovian enigma as authoritarian kulak and bumbling sexual predator.
A Rollicking and Riveting 'Lady Macbeth'
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None of my stepfathers ever made any provision for me.
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His mother remarried when he was eight and his stepfather ran a family business importing clothes.
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When her stepfather buys a house, this trio move in together.
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He was born and raised in Edinburgh, later discovering that the man he had known as his father was his stepfather.
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One of her main supporters is her stepfather Mike Patterson, who often travels with her, encouraging her from ringside.
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The girl had been molested frequently by her stepfather from the age of eight.
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His stepfather spotted him in some bushes, and was trying to catch him when the tragedy happened.
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Jeremy could almost hear the voice of his stepfather snarling the words as he read them, and he felt his rage building.
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These, she says, are inspired by her stepfather, who was himself a writer.
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They lived in military housing, and his stepfather invited a lot of the single sailors to come over for cookouts and parties.
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We were eating dinner à deux in the apartment we had moved into after she married my stepfather.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wish that I could go back in time, adopt Heidi Klum as a child, and then raise her to think that having sex with your stepfather is how things are supposed to be.
WILL FERRELL NOT PROMOTING ENOUGH
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His stepfather's brand of Islam accommodated elements of animism and Hinduism, but Obama understood in retrospect that the overthrow of Sukarno in 1965, and the massacre of Communists and ethnic Chinese, had changed his stepfather from the idealist his mother had met at the University of Hawaii to an incommunicative man intent on surviving in the new regime.
Dreams from Obama
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He opened the door and listened for any signs that his mother and his stepfather were awake.
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I won't be a Staines much longer as I am likely going to assume the name of my stepfather (which is ‘Wangstaff’).
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His mother remarried when he was eight and his stepfather ran a family business importing clothes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like the above author I also grew up in a household where my stepfather abused my mother.
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The father later used a racial slur against the child's stepfather, and was held in contempt for this (as well as for some racial comments about one of the child's dolls).
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Feeling betrayed and rejected, she declared war on her hard-drinking mother and stepfather and began acting out with the bad kids at high school.
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She herself was not rich, but her stepfather, a Chicago merchant, was enormously wealthy, and she was wondering whether, to give her a chance of possible queenhood, David Collis might not open his heart and his purse.
The Guests Of Hercules
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His stepfather still refuses to speak to him and although his mother would like to help she is powerless.
A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
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In addition, 89% of boys were living in two-parent households with their mothers and fathers or stepfathers.
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No problem … his stepfather is well positioned to fix him up through Indonesian banks with funds to replace the money Qaddafi is no longer going to pay.
Matthew Yglesias » Defense Subcabinet Taking Shape
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Instead, we returned to the LA area and lived with my mother and stepfather for about nine months.
Christianity Today
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She has lived with me for 30 years since my stepfather's death.
Times, Sunday Times
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Luke's stepfather is an ex-footballer who doesn't have much time for his son's artistic tendencies, so there's conflict at home, too.
A Conversation with Peter Robinson
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He had a positive relationship with his stepfather, although the longing for his real father never abated.
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Her stepfather is Viscount Astor and she is a direct descendant of Nell Gywn, mistress to Charles II.
Archive 2008-03-01
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In respect of the latter, there is a slight tarnish: he fixed a door for his stepfather and charged him for his expenses and his stepfather thought he was over-charged and complained about it to anyone who would listen to him about it.
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A British study found children are up to 33 times more likely to be abused when a live-in boyfriend or stepfather is present than in an intact family.
Matthew Yglesias » Lets Play Commissar
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McGinnis is survived in life by grandmother Vivian Collins; mother Linda White; stepfather Andrew Ward; sister Tracy Jaramillo; brother-in-law Luis Jaramillo and two beautiful young nieces and two nonfamilial brothers, Quinn Whitten and Seth Gates.
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She only knew that she had to get away; from her stepfather, her mother, from Sam.
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In 1955 she arrived in London with her mother and new stepfather.
Times, Sunday Times
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This negative perception may be related to the high rates of physical abuse inflicted by both biological fathers and stepfathers on sexual offenders.
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It would be understandable if she thought that expressing an interest in her biological roots might seem disloyal to her stepfather, the man she was always proud to call Dad.
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Richard Weissbourd, a psychologist at Harvard's School of Education and the Kennedy School of Government, recounts the anecdote about Chris's oversolicitous stepfather in
The Praise Craze
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The parents in four families were cohabiting, and stepfathers headed seven families.
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He shares his home in Tarzana, LA, with his two half-sisters and his stepfather (more on his complicated clan later).
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In his sensitive analysis of the cases of thirty victims of (nonclerical) pedophilia, Michel Dorais notes that most cases of sexual assault in his study are by fathers or father figures (stepfathers, uncles, older brothers, or cousins).
Scandal
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As noted above, previous research suggests that fathers and stepfathers can, among other benefits, provide mentoring and work-related networks, and act as role models.
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But I am so old that when I was a little boy, six years old, the first time I ever crawled under a car, my stepfather owned a little Buick dealership in a little town in Arkansas where he came from, but we also owned a Henry J-- an old Henry J Kaiser -- (applause) -- and we owned a late 1940s model Jeep.
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She wasn't aware of missing a father figure, although her stepfather later became an important part of her life.
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She told me that my stepfather has been on the warpath since I left.
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So she wanted her future stepfather to take naked pictures of her?
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Being a retired Inspector from the Met, you would think my Stepfather could differentiate between sucking on a few bummed low-grade resin spliffs in my back garden, and developing a crack/heroin habit.
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It was her first encounter with the man who was to become her stepfather.
Times, Sunday Times
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His more kindly stepfather was a disabled civil - war veteran.
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Thereafter, until Jackie set her straight, Caroline referred to Onassis as “my Turkish stepfather.”
American Legacy
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My last stepfather, upon catching me acting out the putrid stories, declared me crazy.
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A sharply negative view of stepfathers and stepfamilies is enabling to biological mothers and their children when they don't want to ‘accept’ a stepfather, even if the biological father is out of the picture.
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His stepfather still refuses to speak to him and although his mother would like to help she is powerless.
A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
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A delightfully quirky semi-autographical novel about a talented misfit blessed with the most patient stepfather in history.
10 more books we loved reading in 2009
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He seems angry with his mum about problems he had with his stepfather.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a stepfather, I have first hand experience of mid and late teenage females.
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With parents vacationing in Mexico, the kid had slipped into his stepfather's uniform and gunbelt, lifted the keys to the green-and-white, and gone joyriding.
Norm Stamper: Ambush of a Cop
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The girl's natural father claimed that her stepfather was turning her against him.
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We were eating dinner à deux in the apartment we had moved into after she married my stepfather.
Times, Sunday Times
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The court heard the stepfather was remorseful and apologised to his stepdaughter for what he did.
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Her mother and stepfather read a book on rock'n'roll economics to help them understand the business and ensure that she did not get ripped off.
Times, Sunday Times
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Peter, who made his fortune in the family wallpaper business, was a generous, demonstrative and easy-going stepfather.
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In 1998 the European Court of Human Rights unanimously found that the repeated caning of a young boy by his stepfather breached the boy's right to protection from inhuman or degrading punishment.
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He hated his stepfather and eventually ran away from home.
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His stepfather treated him like a slave and in the end his mother asked him to leave home.
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‘It was started off in London by my mother's stepfather, and originally made tortoiseshell frames to the firm's own design,’ says James.
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Gorky's mother remarried but the stepfather was as bestial as the rest of the family.
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The stepfather of an imprisoned 17-year-old boy takes us up to his tiny apartment to meet his wife.
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My stepfather was strict and didn't let us have friends in the house; he physically abused me but not sexually.
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Researchers interviewed all 162 children (initially at an average age of eight and a half) about their relationship with their mothers, fathers and stepfathers.
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She did remarry a wonderful man who was a super stepfather to us.
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Her stepfather, Jim Lewis, brought some of her furniture back to Palmetto — her dressing table, her entertainment center — and tried to create a room that would feel very much like home to her.
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The girl had been molested frequently by her stepfather from the age of eight.
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Jake remained across the room at his desk, looking broodily down at the open journal instead of up at his stepfather.
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He hated his stepfather and eventually ran away from home.
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Children of divorced parents are compelled to use their biological father's surnames, even if they live with stepfathers with different last names.
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Her book portrays her stepfather as a cruel man.
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While this may seem scary, it is the only way to get her stepfather to stop what he is doing.
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The defendant said his stepfather was a nonce.
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He experienced a deeply weird upbringing, living with his mother and many stepfathers in a run-down trailer.
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My strength is large animals - my mother and my stepfather were farmers, and I used to work at a livery.
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Caroline never met her stepfather and her mother would never hear her voice again.
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Plante's stepfather is Bill Plante, the esteemed CBS correspondent and anchor.
Conservatively speaking, WMAL radio host Chris Plante is on the rise
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As a boy, he lived for several years in predominantly Muslim Indonesia with his mother and Indonesian stepfather.
Obama 'Christian By Choice': President Responds To Questioner
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At supper she grinned at her stepfather, who triumphantly swept back his slick hair.
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Years later he would confess among his past sins the desire to set alight the house with his mother and stepfather in it.
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He had no reason to love his stepfather, who he says mistreated him and his mother as far back as he can remember.
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An uncomfortable silence fell over the room and Andy quietly sat, her chin lifted in mute defiance, as her mother and stepfather stared at her.
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His stepfather, Ludwig Geyer, was an actor who roped the whole family into theatrical productions.
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Caroline never met her stepfather and her mother would never hear her voice again.
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a slight passing alarm at one or two explosions that she would, for instance, address her stepfather, after hearing his volleys at some offender in the distance, with, "Who did I hear you calling a confounded idiot, Jeremiah?
Somehow Good
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The keeper of the vehicle was identified as the defendant's stepfather and he gave police his stepson's address.
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Two days later, still not wanting to "make a big deal," she called her stepfather, a doctor, at his office and told him of escalating head pain and nausea.
SaraKay Smullens: A Wake Up Call
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I noes wen de war broke out marse had a store and den marsa took me to his wife's kinfolks down in de country till freedom war declared den my stepfather come an 'got me.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives
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In reality I was very scared of my mother and stepfather.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inevitably my stepfather would pull a box of Entenmann's doughnuts out of a brown paper bag and toss it onto the counter.
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He held a loaded air pistol to her stepfather's neck and threatened to blow his head off.
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How did your mother react to the fact that you and your stepfather didn't get along?
