How to Use familial in a Sentence

familial

adjective
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  • The company has created a familial atmosphere in its offices.
  • Guilbeau’s start in the culinary world is a familial one.
    — Wire Services, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The poems include bloody dramas, familial and cosmic, set in the space of the kitchen.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
  • Years after Lawrence was killed, a familial DNA match was found, police said.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Despite the years of familial fighting, both Nick and Aaron shared their grief on social media.
    — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The role in the Hulu series took a certain type of courage for Weaver, 43, who portrayed a family tragedy and close familial bond.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Someone should do the same for Thanksgiving, a familial stress-and-guilt machine.
    — John Hodgman, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Scripture offers plenty of guidance about the role and traits of mothers and familial love.
    — Blair Donovan, Country Living, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Along the way, the two slowly form a familial bond that throws Joel’s original task into upheaval.
    — Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Amid his work and familial obligations, Cera has been short on free time lately.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Her dancers break into a familiar and familial dance — the Electric Slide.
    — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Twice this season, the conversation narrowed in on a bit of familial trash talk.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2024
  • It’s been my familial role for 20 years — and usually my siblings and our spouses are happy to step aside.
    — Heidi Mitchell, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Five boys are stuck at the school, unable to go home, whether owing to familial disorder or, in the case of a Korean boy, distance.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Cold urticaria has two main types: acquired and familial.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
  • But the desire to help is also tempered by the understanding that the small, familial atmosphere is part of the magic of Moms House.
    — Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 26 July 2023
  • Mixed into this year’s Iditarod field of 33 mushers are a father and son who are the first pair of familial rookies to ever run the race at the same time.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • This equates to almost 20% having familial ties to slavery.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 29 June 2023
  • Layer by layer, the documentary peels back where the men grew up, their familial backgrounds and the circumstances that led them to prison.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The franchise is known for its familial themes, and the seventh film more fully explored the emotional depths of familial bonds.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • This familial union is sealed with the band’s matching signature clown tattoos.
    — Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • There’s more to his abrupt career shift and homecoming than familial love and obligation, and part of the brilliance of the novel is getting to the heart of that secondary mystery.
    — Carole V. Bell, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
  • And Powers’ voice, as quiet as ever, is the ghost stalking the halls, croaking stories of familial decay.
    — Pitchfork, 6 Dec. 2023
  • At their home in the small and congested town of Beed, the now middle-aged duo recalls how Mr. Avadh was freed not only from the farm owner’s clutches, but also from the familial debt.
    — Haziq Qadri, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2023
  • Even with losing an important mentor such as Thomas, there is still a familial presence on which McWilliams can lean.
    — Evan Dudley, al, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The Guardians’ randomness highlights the things that are most commonly desired – the familial, the romantic, the heroic.
    — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2023
  • All the characters want some form of love — romantic, familial or self-love/respect.
    — Daniel Olivas, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Their scenes together have a familial undertone, even if they are supposed to be strangers.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 29 Aug. 2023
  • There’s so much touching, whether that’s familial touching or a more sensual thing.
    — Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The lifelong Williamsburg resident her ancestors have familial ties to the Bray School.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 28 Mar. 2024

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