How to Use great-aunt in a Sentence

great-aunt

noun

• Our first stop was the home of my great-aunt Leila, a few miles north of Beirut.
  — Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
• In 2016, the younger Kick visited the grave of her great-aunt.
  — Julie Tremaine, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• One of his great-aunts was born in a camp, Kosaka said.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
• Two of her great-aunts worked at the factory, and one of them, Rosie Weiner, died in the fire.
  — Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• The Navajo sought to have the child placed with her great-aunt, who lives on a reservation.
  — Abbie Vansickle, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
• That, Leavitt argues, makes his wife the child's great-aunt.
  — Erin Alberty, Axios, 30 Aug. 2024
• The issue is that his great-uncle jilted my great-aunt at the altar in the 1970s.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024
• Franklin, 54, was born in Fort Worth and raised by a great-aunt who took him to church every Sunday.
  — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 May 2024
• My great-aunt was an AKA, and her chapter also helped raise me.
  — Ebony Flake, Essence, 14 May 2024
• At one point, my great-aunt was the master pastry chef at the Monastery [of the Angels] in Laurel Canyon.
  — Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• With the use of a slow shutter speed, Tarantino’s vision of his great-aunt is stilted, fuzzy.
  — David Pisonero Tarantino, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2023
• Montana, 12, says Quist and her store full of homemade crafts and knick-knacks is the coolest, and wants to follow in her great-aunt’s footsteps.
  — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
• This all changes when she is informed in the lead-up to Christmas that a great-aunt has left her a centuries-old manor home in the quaint English town of Plumhill.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 28 June 2024
• The teenager was thrown into the windshield, flew into the air and landed face down in the road, according to his great-aunt, Dorothy Lynch.
  — Faiz Siddiqui, Jeremy B. Merrill, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
• My great-aunt’s screams were so unbearable that others started pulling off her clothes, and with them skin.
  — Maggie Levantovskaya, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2023
• His grandma, Betty, and his great-aunts, all of whom lived colorful lives.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2024
• His great-aunt said the incident should serve as a warning about the dangers of the technology.
  — Faiz Siddiqui, Jeremy B. Merrill, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
• She’ll be accompanied by her great-aunt, Kim Corzine, and her cousin, Krista, who’s Corzine’s daughter.
  — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2023
• Marie grew up hearing little about her great-aunt, picking up only a few fragments over the years.
  — Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
• 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, 15 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Radcliffe played the young Copperfield, and Smith his great-aunt Betsey Trotwood.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2024
• Back in ’73, Syl had inherited the house, and its problems and its mortgage, from her great-aunt.
  — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
• Sally and Raymond Haik were Dunn’s great-aunt and great-uncle.
  — Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026
• The call is from her great-aunt.
  — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 2 June 2026
• Nina’s grandmother and great-aunt also died.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 26 May 2026
• The boy's great-aunt, Carla Deliford, also grieved and noted that King was autistic.
  — Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 24 May 2026
• Tanner's great-aunt also told the court that Terry had multiple children.
  — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
• Tanner Horner’s great-aunt took the witness stand briefly to talk about his father’s troubled upbringing.
  — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Apr. 2026