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.
• Again, the fun of card games with family is the back and forth.
  — Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 12 Dec. 2020
• The work kept him away from his family for a week or more.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2022
• His family and friends in the gallery appeared to be in shock.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• The family dog was also found shot and killed in the backseat.
  — Fox News, 28 Dec. 2021
• Chris used to be the one who checked in on everyone in the family.
  — Jason Armond, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2023
• Davis then relayed news to the rest of the family and their school colleagues.
  — Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com, 11 June 2020
• The two families have been jealous of each other for a long time.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 22 July 2023
• Why not stop by with family and friends and enjoy a morning out with the kids.
  — cleveland, 4 Apr. 2022
• My last time playing in front of my family and friends.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 17 June 2022
• Winfield kept in touch with his family all the way up to his final days.
  — Christian Booher, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2021
• But the food pantry isn't just about serving families in need.
  — Lori Higgins, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2018
• But our family home did have its own antecedent to the home office.
  — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2020
• That’s one great way to avoid calls and texts from family and friends and relieve stress.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 8 Nov. 2022
• Slade spends the most time with the crew’s families and their persistent grief.
  — Craig Fehrman, Outside Online, 16 May 2018
• Our thoughts and prayers go out to Don’s family and his many friends.
  — Keith Allen, CNN, 17 June 2023
• And so, my mom and sister purchased the same one right then and there on our family ski trip.
  — Michelle Parente, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2024
• No children were hurt, and all were placed with family and friends.
  — Thomas Peipert, Star Tribune, 11 May 2021
• But at the heart of it, there is a family, without question.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 8 Jan. 2023
• Please pray for God’s hand to be over all who lost family and friends.
  — Elizabeth Pritchett, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2023
• Meals range from family size to ones perfect for a couple.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2020
• Police sprayed tear-gas at family members who flocked to the prison for news.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
• Your family will be fighting over all those extra-crispy bits of cheese that browned in the pan.
  — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 29 Jan. 2024

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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
• But a broader pro-family agenda should be their next goal.
  — New York Times, 7 May 2022
• But it’s the single- and multi-family markets in the city that are the most competitive right now.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2021
• 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
• This has occurred prior to the completion of many of those multi-family units.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 23 Jan. 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
• The blaze is now out in the three-story multi-family building on Sparkle Drive.
  — Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2021
• The remaining four percent is owned by non-family members.
  — oregonlive, 2 Apr. 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 multi-family home building was a total loss, Flurey said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2021
• The recommendations also call for multi-family users to pay the same rates as all other classes.
  — Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 13 Oct. 2020
• 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
• There was a subsequent non-family placement that lasted until that child reached the age of majority.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 11 Sep. 2021
• This mid-tier system is perfectly sized for single and multi-family homes.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 23 Sep. 2022
• Brown called for eliminating the bans on multi-family homes found in many communities.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022
• 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
• Polensek said of building large, multi-family housing projects.
  — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 3 Oct. 2022
• That was somewhat offset by a 3% rise in multi-family home building.
  — Matt Ott, Star Tribune, 3 Aug. 2020
• For an investor, this means purchasing a multi-family home and occupying a unit on the property.
  — Steve Byrne, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• Many of them live in multi-family settings or with multiple generations sharing a home.
  — oregonlive, 8 Dec. 2020
• The fire took place in a multi-family home in Detroit, allegedly caused by the downstairs tenants' kids lighting up a mattress in the bedroom.
  — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2023
• But the way to preserve that option is to make higher-density, multi-family options available.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
• And for all their talk of selfless stewardship, the non-family executives at the foundation would certainly agree.
  — Benjamin Soskis, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2022
• To apply, complete this form and send us a letter of reference from a non-family member such as a teacher or employer, and up to three samples of your work.
  — Marina Starleaf Riker, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Dec. 2021
• To comply with the Guinness World Records’ rules, Hansen had asked non-family members to witness the event.
  — Michelle Harris, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
• The first has the prospect of winning broad-based, bipartisan support and building pro-family infrastructure.
  — Oren Cass, Star Tribune, 3 Mar. 2021
• Many live in close quarters, in multi-generational and multi-family homes.
  — oregonlive, 1 July 2020
• Rent prices are for units in multi-family properties and based on estimates from CoStar Group.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• The residence is a multi-family home with five bedrooms and two bathrooms, according to a Zillow listing.
  — Haley Hersey, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024