How to Use family in a Sentence

family

1 of 2 noun

• She's a friend of the family.
• The show is fun for the whole family.
• There were a lot of families at the circus.
• She wants to spend more time with her family.
• After his father's death he became the head of the family.
• He spent a quiet evening at home with family.
• He's devoted to his wife and family.
• There are several doctors on his mother's side of the family.
• My prayers go out to him and his family.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 16 June 2026
• My heart goes out to those families and those friends.
  — Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2025
• The best place to raise a family.
  — Terry Collins, USA Today, 10 June 2026
• Again, the fun of card games with family is the back and forth.
  — Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 12 Dec. 2020
• As the family tried to drive away, an agent fired at their car.
  — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
• My thoughts, love and prayers go out to his family and friends.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
• There are smart genes in their families.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
• Serve your family a healthy make-ahead meal that's easy to prep.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2026
• Now the family show will pick up and bring you back into our home.
  — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Jan. 2026
• His family and friends in the gallery appeared to be in shock.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• And families need to know what to look for, Hays said.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
• Would they still be treated as part of the family?
  — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 1 Apr. 2026
• His family and his friends lost him for something so stupid.
  — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2026
• Both couples have gone on to start families of their own.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
• How big was the Turpin family home?
  — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 4 Feb. 2026
• Thanks to all the bands that became friends and family.
  — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 25 Feb. 2026
• Our thoughts and prayers go out to Don’s family and his many friends.
  — Keith Allen, CNN, 17 June 2023
• No children were hurt, and all were placed with family and friends.
  — Thomas Peipert, Star Tribune, 11 May 2021
• This kitchen is my safe space, not just for time with family and good food, but for the vibes.
  — Francesca Krempa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 Mar. 2026
• But the food pantry isn't just about serving families in need.
  — Lori Higgins, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2018
• Please pray for God’s hand to be over all who lost family and friends.
  — Elizabeth Pritchett, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2023
• Once those things are in place, families have a few options.
  — Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 2 Sep. 2025

family

2 of 2 adjective

• Others want to buy a multi-family unit and live in one unit and rent the other.
  — Laura Alamery, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• The pro-family imagery runs well ahead of the reality it is meant to change.
  — Diana Dukhanova, The Conversation, 6 July 2026
• City law requires apartment doors in many multi-family buildings to close on their own.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 8 May 2026
• The story opens in a multi-family summer house.
  — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
• But there were scarcely any remarks about the record high multi-family housing starts over the past few months.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2021
• Do the new laws address the need for more multi-family construction?
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
• The multi-family home building was a total loss, Flurey said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2021
• Polensek said of building large, multi-family housing projects.
  — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 3 Oct. 2022
• Nevar said that plans had changed and there is no longer a possibility of multi-family dwellings at the site.
  — cleveland, 29 June 2022
• Three of the people who died lived above the third floor of multi-family dwellings, county officials said.
  — Bslovic, oregonlive, 7 Mar. 2023
• This has occurred prior to the completion of many of those multi-family units.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2022
• That was somewhat offset by a 3% rise in multi-family home building.
  — Matt Ott, Star Tribune, 3 Aug. 2020
• The blaze is now out in the three-story multi-family building on Sparkle Drive.
  — Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2021
• This mid-tier system is perfectly sized for single and multi-family homes.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 23 Sep. 2022
• Builders were issued permits to build just 335 multi-family units, about one-third as many as last year.
  — Jim Buchta, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
• After all, the jump in new home construction was largely fueled by a rise in multi-family units.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2022
• The front porch had also collapsed on the two-story, multi-family building.
  — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 16 Feb. 2026
• Under the new law, short-term rentals include single- and multi-family homes, apartments, condos and co-ops.
  — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
• But half of those homes would be on a lot that’s currently zoned for multi-family residences, such as apartments.
  — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• No Christian, pro-family, pro-life government should act in this fashion.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 2 Nov. 2020
• Firefighters saw heavy fire and smoke from the windows and roof of a large, four-story, brick, multi-family building.
  — Brook Endale, The Enquirer, 25 Dec. 2021
• Cars then drove through the flood water, creating waves that crashed into the multi-family home, flooding the basement and first floor.
  — CBS News, 3 Sep. 2021
• This is the number of multi-family homes that builders would begin if development kept this pace for the next 12 months.
  — Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
• That unfolding intra-family fight is messy, to put it mildly, but one that Democrats are relishing.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 26 Feb. 2026
• That means that unless a local rule says otherwise, people will not have to stay 6 feet apart from non-family members in public.
  — USA TODAY, 16 June 2020
• The recommendations also call for multi-family users to pay the same rates as all other classes.
  — Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 13 Oct. 2020
• Each multi-family unit can schedule two appointments per calendar year.
  — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2026
• Yet the skepticism of single-family home dwellers to living near multi-family housing looms large.
  — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
• Rent prices are for units in multi-family properties and based on estimates from CoStar Group.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• The county system placed 38 percent of its foster children with a relative or a close non-family member last year.
  — Morgan Cook, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2021