brother-in-law
noun
Examples of brother-in-law in a Sentence
Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
Even in the simple car example, what if your brother-in-law has already filed his 2011 tax return before the rescission, perhaps even depreciating or writing off the car?
—Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
Hardy said his brother-in-law Dale Warner told him that his wife left on April 25 with a travel bag, a phone, a curling iron and hair spray.
—Rudy Chinchilla, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
His brother-in-law, who had come to New York six months earlier, told Mr. Rodríguez there were opportunities for him in New York, and lent him money to fly here.
—Keith Collins, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
Speaking to Politico, Lollobrigida, who is also Meloni’s brother-in-law, framed the move as one that would protect Italy’s heritage of producing salami and prosciutto.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 17 Nov. 2023
The brother-in-law of former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, a Democrat, has been arrested in Florida on charges of human trafficking, battery and lewd or lascivious touching of a minor, according to the Office of the State Attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit.
—Brandon Gillespie, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2023
Her new mother and brother-in-law visited the upstairs condo TJ renovated for them with gifts of cow dung and urine.
—Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
On Monday, a Florida jury found Charlie Adelson guilty of concocting a plot with a former girlfriend and hiring two men to kill his former brother-in-law Dan Markel in 2014.
—Alison Lynn, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2023
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14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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