How to Use uncle in a Sentence
uncle
noun
- I have three uncles and two aunts.
- My Uncle David is visiting next week.
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The life of a son, a brother, a brother-in-law, and an uncle.
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Erin Moriarty,
CBS News,
14 Jan. 2023
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Fox pulled the 94-pounder aboard with help from his uncles and his father.
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Travis Hall,
Field & Stream,
4 Jan. 2024
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As a boy, Thomas spent countless hours on his uncle’s farm — Grace Acres — and the woods around it.
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John Kelly,
Washington Post,
13 Sep. 2023
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My uncle, a chef, often refers to the broth as liquid gold.
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Isa Zapata,
Bon Appétit,
3 Oct. 2023
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There were no cousins next door, no aunts or uncles in the neighborhood to go to.
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Souvankham Thammavongsa,
The New Yorker,
3 July 2023
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My uncle plays the piano, and my mother’s cousin sings on the guitar.
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Zaina Arafat,
The New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2024
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Mando had played the keyboard in his uncles’ band in grade school.
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Cat Cardenas,
Vogue,
26 Oct. 2023
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Then, at around 6:30 A.M., Maram’s uncle Nader comes to our room.
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Mosab Abu Toha,
The New Yorker,
25 Dec. 2023
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Karten's uncle, Sharon Edri, was murdered by Hamas in 1996.
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Jericka Duncan,
CBS News,
29 Oct. 2023
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Baldwin visits a graveyard and finds the gravestone of a late uncle, born in 1866.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
16 Jan. 2024
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Farley, along with his aunt and uncle, came into town Tuesday morning and went to the site of the scene, Greene said.
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Cara Tabachnick,
CBS News,
22 Aug. 2023
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Her uncle had raised her for the past seven years, referring to her as his daughter in the video.
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Loveday Morris,
Washington Post,
20 Jan. 2024
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Her son’s uncle, however, had to stay for two more days.
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Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Dec. 2023
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Then, my mom, sister, stepdad, and uncle all popped out from behind the tree!
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Alexandra MacOn,
Vogue,
22 Dec. 2023
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His parents are small farmers, and his uncle is a tailor in the village.
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Parth M.n.,
WIRED,
17 July 2023
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Of his uncle, Aguas always said that using a knife to stir the drink is essential.
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Jeanette Hurt,
Forbes,
29 Feb. 2024
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But here’s the rub: the barbeque is a wedding reception for his mother and his uncle.
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David Catlin,
The Enquirer,
6 Mar. 2024
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That’s two families that lost a child, a sibling, or an uncle.
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Gabrielle M. Etzel,
Washington Examiner,
13 July 2023
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The Scream Queens star is a loving uncle to his nephew and shares photos of the two hanging out on social media.
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Ilana Frost,
Peoplemag,
21 Dec. 2023
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And Hank was buried on top of his paternal uncle, who died at age 26 in a car accident.
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Gina Kolata Kim Raff,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2024
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Clemons, by the way, uses his uncle’s saxophone on stage.
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Chris Jordan,
USA TODAY,
2 Feb. 2023
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Fields said Cobb was a twin brother, an active father, an uncle, a cousin and a loyal friend.
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Ben Brasch,
Washington Post,
3 Aug. 2023
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At the lakeside shelter where vows were exchanged, she was delivered by the bride’s uncle on a golf cart.
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Rick Montgomery,
Kansas City Star,
30 Jan. 2024
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The house always needed upkeep, and for a while Nimmo’s uncle Tommy had been in charge.
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Curbed,
23 Dec. 2023
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In Episode 6, resident nerd Cheese [Lane Factor] goes fishing in the woods with his uncles.
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Hugh Hart,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Sep. 2023
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The killer, Lawrence Paul Anderson, had been visiting his older aunt and uncle, who lived across the road.
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Riley Robinson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
18 Feb. 2024
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The two had been close friends, according to the defense, and were related through Ritter's aunt and the woman's uncle.
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CBS News,
20 Feb. 2024
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In the early 1950s, an uncle brought her to Boston to fill in at a nightclub for an absent headliner.
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Bryan Marquard,
BostonGlobe.com,
6 Aug. 2023
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