extended family
Example Sentences
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Getting a decent shot of my extended family is nearly impossible.
A relative who hosts huge dinners for her extended family splurges the next day: hiring a housekeeper to come and going out to get a mani-pedi, 10-minute back and neck massage.
From Salon
“Community can mean friends, extended families, adopted families, even the community which you live in,” Ung said.
From Los Angeles Times
Mr. Desplechin takes a quick-cutting, kaleidoscopic approach to this domestic epic, and evokes in richly melodramatic style the feeling of passing the holidays with extended family.
The tentacles of her extended family reach into high levels of the military and other public offices.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
