in-laws
Example Sentences
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Another reader accepted $300,000 from his in-laws so he and his wife could buy a home, only to receive a demand to give their niece $125,000 when they sold the house.
From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026
Running from murderous in-laws is nothing compared to the threat at the heart of “Something Very Bad is Going to Happen,” which depicts exchanging vows with a presumed soul mate as gambling with a curse.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
Every evening, she sits with her in-laws and speaks about Shubham for an hour - a conversation that circles around the same person and the same details, slightly reshaped each time.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
With $9.1 million, fourth place went to Searchlight's "Ready or Not 2," a follow-up to the 2019 original comedy horror in which a bride must survive a deadly game of hide-and-seek with her new in-laws.
From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026
“I can look after myself and my children,” she said, slightly emphasising the “myself’ and “my children” so that we might understand, “but not my in-laws as well.”
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
