How to Use nephew in a Sentence

nephew

noun
  • Steve's nephew, Nick French, came to the scene on the day Steve died.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Her niece and nephew – six and four – drowned in the river.
    — Swati Gupta, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022
  • This year my 6-month-old son and 3-month-old nephew were in the mix.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2022
  • One man had a nephew drive in from Louisville to lend a set of hands.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 30 July 2022
  • Ariel stood, walked over to his nephew and shook his head.
    — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2024
  • At one point, from jail, Williams rapped to a nephew by phone.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The nephew reached for his own copy and began to read aloud.
    — Megan Burrow and Nhung Nguyen, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
  • My niece and nephew are no longer in the custody of their father.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2024
  • That makes the two older boys, who are now 8 and 10, the 3-year-old's nephews.
    — Sacha Pfeiffer, NPR, 27 May 2025
  • Ramos' nephew Jesús, 20, steps into the open pay-per-view slot.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Todd was the nephew of Mary Todd, wife of Abraham Lincoln.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024
  • That same year, his nephew was killed by a roadside bomb.
    — New York Times, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Gil’s nephew — who came over and made the decision to call paramedics.
    — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The uncle and nephew's arrests bring the number of Hoosiers charged in the Jan. 6 riot to 18.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Richards’ nephew, Lance Richards, confirmed the death in a Facebook post.
    — Staff and Wire Reports, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
  • That's my worst fear, that my little nephew comes back like that.
    — Alan Cohen, NBC News, 27 July 2023
  • Her nephew, who was visiting, saw the flames and called 911.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Jake Clemons, the late Clarence Clemons’ nephew, charged up the arena on his solos.
    — Chris Jordan, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
  • This time, the mother of five was joined by just Paige, Ladd and nephew Stuart Smith.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
  • To be with her and my dad and my brother, all of her friends, my nephews.
    — Michaela Zee, Variety, 19 Oct. 2024
  • The actor was trying to help his nephew out of the snow near his home in Lake Tahoe when the Sno-Cat crushed him.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Meryl Streep ‘cut a car-sized hole in the fence,’ and fled the Palisades fire through a neighbor’s yard, nephew says.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Welcome to the world and to the family my little nephew.
    — Jamie Ballard, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Her nephew, who was 8 years old at the time, was also in the home when police shot his aunt.
    — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Hax: How to curb a ‘growing dislike’ of nephew’s new wife?
    — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
  • To this day, Mike Lohner doesn’t quite know where his nephew found the money.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 7 July 2025
  • And there was that chance meeting with White's great nephew that ended in a hug.
    — Pamela Kirkland, CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
  • The nephew disavows knowledge of the car bomb but says Carter stole the crypto money from the school.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2022
  • My niece and nephew checked in with Art Dye to get shooting advice.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Her nephew's response goes some way to explaining why the picture has remained in the family for so many years since.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 July 2025

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