Aunt Sally
Example Sentences
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Let’s say you want to give Aunt Sally a gift card to a clothing store.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
“I looked around, and I saw my Aunt Maureen crying. And my Aunt Sally crying. I saw my mom crying. And I just broke.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2020
Arthur Taylor, author of Played at the Pub, suggests Aunt Sally - which is played in Oxfordshire and parts of Buckinghamshire - has rather grisly origins.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2017
In 1945's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," for instance, Blondell gives a lively but rounded and modulated performance as uninhibited but caring Aunt Sally in Elia Kazan’s naturalistic feature debut.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2016
This is no Sunday-school treat wi' tugs-o'-war and shying at Aunt Sally for coco-nits!
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
