be one of the family

Example Sentences

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So Isabella went on learning what it was to be one of the family, and becoming, as Mrs. Lester remarked, a very experienced seamstress.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 by Various

We shall all call you by your first name, and you will be one of the family, to the rules of which you must conform.

From A Noble Name or D?nninghausen by Gl?mer, Claire Von

Mr. Jensen would be one of the family.

From The Nest Builder by Hale, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson

I am one among our innumerable American teachers, reared on the Atlantic coast but admitted for this year to be one of the family at Stanford.

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry

Anyway, you ’m tokened to Chris and will be one of the family some day perhaps when Mother Coomstock dies, so I’ll leave my secret with you.

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden