avuncular

Example Sentences

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A warm, avuncular character actor, Cribbins was a childhood presence for several generations of Britons.

From Seattle Times

But he is also Citizen Ken, magnanimous and avuncular when he encourages his boss at The New Yorker, David Remnick, to publish the young journalist Ronan Farrow’s investigation of Weinstein’s misdeeds.

From New York Times

He made good and forgettable movies, disappeared, re-emerged and matured into avuncular roles.

From New York Times

“The Authority of the Court” reads like what it is — an avuncular polemic constructed by an exemplary technocrat, blithely secure in the nobility of his intentions.

From New York Times

With his avuncular white beard and commanding voice, Mr. Thompson, 74, has established the committee’s serious, and almost solemn, tone.

From New York Times