sisterly

Example Sentences

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Two disparate siblings find common ground in the TV movie “A Sisterly Christmas.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2021

Q. Sisterly relations: My husband left me for another woman a few years ago.

From Slate • Dec. 1, 2020

Sisterly love is protective, complicated and intense, but it is definitely not sexy.

From The Guardian • Feb. 5, 2018

“I encourage Philadelphians to stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters and to show them that we are the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2017

Sisterly, brotherly, Fatherly, motherly Feelings had changed,— Love, by harsh evidence, Thrown from its eminence; Even God's providence Seeming estranged.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss