How to Use great-uncle in a Sentence
great-uncle
noun
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My strong great-uncle, swinging from the rafters, lost weight.
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Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2023
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The issue is that his great-uncle jilted my great-aunt at the altar in the 1970s.
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Jeanne Phillips,
The Mercury News,
27 May 2024
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The boys’ great-uncle, Charles Cooper Sr., said the event was beautiful.
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Nick Stoico,
BostonGlobe.com,
22 July 2023
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On the Wall of the Missing, her great-uncle’s name is now marked with a rosette, indicating that he has been found.
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Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 June 2024
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Two of Cordero’s great-uncles were abducted in 1973 and never found.
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Pascale Bonnefoy,
BostonGlobe.com,
30 Aug. 2023
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But there’s also the one from the trial — when Till’s great-uncle is identifying the men who murdered his nephew.
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Lucy McKeon,
New York Times,
3 June 2024
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Voight grew up in Yonkers, the middle son of a golf pro and a stay-at-home mom whose great-uncle was an isolationist and a staunch Joseph McCarthy supporter.
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Stephen Rodrick,
Variety,
23 July 2024
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Some, like Cohen’s great-uncle, had their number removed.
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Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Jan. 2024
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Some 40 years ago his great-uncle built a tennis club there, on what was a clay-pigeon shooting range, and Alcaraz’s grandfather, Carlos, joined in the venture.
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Gaby Wood,
Vogue,
22 Feb. 2023
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Toward the end of the movie, Mahito stumbles on a possible vision of his own future, though the question of who this elder sage is — Natsuko’s great-uncle?
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Justin Chang,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Nov. 2023
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My niece knows her great-grandfather and great-uncle both graduated from there.
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Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
23 Sep. 2024
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Lyons is a third-generation family farmer, the heir to a farming dynasty that began when his great-uncle E. T. Mape came over from Ireland.
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Jake Bittle,
WIRED,
6 Jan. 2024
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One of Maram’s great-uncles, Fayez, is pushing a wheelchair carrying Maram’s ninety-year-old great-grandmother.
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Mosab Abu Toha,
The New Yorker,
25 Dec. 2023
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In Luling, Yeni, her parents, aunts, and grandmother settled into a cramped house with a tin roof that was down the street from her great-uncles, the first members of the family to discover the town’s decent jobs, in the oil fields.
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Stephania Taladrid,
The New Yorker,
8 Jan. 2024
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If your fiance’s great-uncle got wind of the fact that he was being falsely accused and that your great-aunt not only didn’t love him but was after him for financial gain, who can blame him for running?
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Jeanne Phillips,
The Mercury News,
27 May 2024
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My great-uncle, Dennis Lubin, designed the Ardell logo and branding, which the company still uses today.
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Linne Halpern,
ELLE,
21 June 2023
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Dominik has followed his father and great-uncle into professional wrestling with WWE.
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Adam England,
Peoplemag,
19 May 2024
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After the war, Curt Engelhorn, Marlene’s great-uncle, took over the company, which was then a medium-sized family business, and turned it into a global empire.
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Joshua Yaffa,
The New Yorker,
2 Sep. 2024
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According to the listing, Nightingale’s wealthy father, William Nightingale (née Shore), inherited the historic property from his great-uncle in 1815.
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Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
12 June 2024
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Her great-uncle leads the family in ardas, a Sikh prayer, every year to express gratitude at everyone being together.
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Sakshi Venkatraman,
NBC News,
22 Nov. 2023
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When his great-uncle dies, Norman inherits the responsibility of enacting an annual ritual to protect the town from a 300 year old witch's curse.
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Danny Horn,
EW.com,
6 Oct. 2023
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To create his marketplace, Hidalgo returned to Mexico several times and met with old relatives, including a great-uncle who was a general in the army.
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Héctor Tobar Deb Leal,
New York Times,
1 June 2023
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Inherited from a great-uncle, the claim feels removed, a former assayer’s office stripped down to a wood stove, piles of National Geographic and Sports Illustrated.
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Hamilton Cain,
Washington Post,
30 July 2024
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Ralph Nader — consumer advocate, former presidential candidate and the great-uncle of Samya Rose Stumo — is skeptical that will happen.
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Tribune News Service,
Hartford Courant,
23 Apr. 2024
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Crates of books, encyclopedias, grammars, lexicons, manuals of science and theology, the library of Julia’s great-uncle, Gundolf Klopps.
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Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
4 May 2023
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Marrero’s grand-nephew Antonio, who is bisexual, talks about how a strain of homophobia that persists within his family prevented him from learning his great-uncle’s story earlier.
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Time,
7 July 2023
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