uncle

Example Sentences

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With my dad and my aunt and uncle, Medicaid took everything, including their homes, to pay for nursing-home care.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

But you could argue most of the money was effectively stolen from the uncle rather than the taxpayer.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

The court filing also included statements from Jonathan’s two sisters, uncle, Mango’s Chief Executive Toni Ruiz, Isak’s secretary and some friends denying that the pair had a bad relationship.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

His uncle, Ron Reynolds, was a goalkeeper who signed from Tottenham Hotspur to Southampton in the 1960s and gave him his first pair of football boots.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

A boy who looked like he was my age told me his uncle took a piece of fruit that did not belong to him and was sentenced to five years of hard labor in Aswan.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman