Examples of great-aunt in a Sentence
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Unless your great-aunts have trained you in the World War II art of Defendu, please leave this to the professionals.
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Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
In the present day, Annie Adams has been summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
If only there was a piece of antique furniture from a great-aunt, a Civil War saber from a distant cousin.
—Lisa Swander, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2024
Thompson has a daughter who is being raised by another great-aunt.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
In an exclusive interview in Washington with NBC News’ Lester Holt earlier this month, Abigail’s great-aunt Liz Hirsh Naftali revealed that the little girl’s parents were killed in their home at the Kfar Aza kibbutz.
—Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
In 2010, Ann Johnston Dolce—my third cousin once removed, whose great-aunt Catherine Robinson also lived on the Bremond Block, in the house next to my grandmother’s—privately published a comprehensive family history.
—David Owen, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2024
Advertisement Three of Raviv’s relatives — his great-aunt Ruthi Munder, her daughter Keren Munder and 9-year-old grandson Ohad Munder-Zichri — were released as part of the hostage deal.
—Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
He is survived by his parents, his sister, his brother, his two nephews, his grandmother, his great-aunt and his two uncles.
—Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023
Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
In the present day, Annie Adams has been summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
If only there was a piece of antique furniture from a great-aunt, a Civil War saber from a distant cousin.
—Lisa Swander, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2024
Thompson has a daughter who is being raised by another great-aunt.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
In an exclusive interview in Washington with NBC News’ Lester Holt earlier this month, Abigail’s great-aunt Liz Hirsh Naftali revealed that the little girl’s parents were killed in their home at the Kfar Aza kibbutz.
—Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
In 2010, Ann Johnston Dolce—my third cousin once removed, whose great-aunt Catherine Robinson also lived on the Bremond Block, in the house next to my grandmother’s—privately published a comprehensive family history.
—David Owen, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2024
Advertisement Three of Raviv’s relatives — his great-aunt Ruthi Munder, her daughter Keren Munder and 9-year-old grandson Ohad Munder-Zichri — were released as part of the hostage deal.
—Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
He is survived by his parents, his sister, his brother, his two nephews, his grandmother, his great-aunt and his two uncles.
—Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023
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“Great-aunt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/great-aunt. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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