How to Use great-uncle in a Sentence

great-uncle

noun

• This prompts Phan’s great-uncle to nod and smile.
  — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 2 June 2026
• Who wants your great-uncle to be your landlord?
  — Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 12 June 2026
• My strong great-uncle, swinging from the rafters, lost weight.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• My great-aunt and great-uncle had built this house along with my grandfather.
  — Bo Evans, CBS News, 30 June 2026
• In addition, my great-uncle Klaus lived here.
  — Leonie Rolinck, Architectural Digest, 9 May 2026
• That included his great-uncle’s home.
  — Charlotte Observer, 24 Oct. 2025
• Kline does not have high expectations that his great-uncle will among those identified.
  — ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026
• Carrick’s great-uncle John played for Millwall.
  — Michael Walker, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
• Life on the line For most of the '60s, my great-aunt and great-uncle lived in Detroit.
  — Jackie Charniga, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2025
• My niece knows her great-grandfather and great-uncle both graduated from there.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
• One of those men was Woodfin's eighth great-uncle, Henry Dearborn.
  — Chelsea Torres, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
• Sally and Raymond Haik were Dunn’s great-aunt and great-uncle.
  — Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026
• My great-uncle, Daniel Green, has a reservoir named after him in Saskatchewan.
  — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2025
• So was exuding pride, even behind a humble hot dog stand, which was how his great-uncle Pat got his start.
  — Danielle Paquette The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 12 Apr. 2026
• Their grandfather, Louis Polidori, and great-uncle took over and ran the store for decades.
  — Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2025
• 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
• Her great-uncles and grandfather—who was a drummer and a singer—were once in talks with Motown about signing.
  — Meagan Jordan, VIBE.com, 10 July 2026
• Harry wants his kids to get to know their great-uncle, the man formerly known as Prince Andrew.
  — John Ficarra, Air Mail, 29 Aug. 2026
• My great-uncle Nathan had remarkably full lips, almost purple in color.
  — Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
• In 1918, her great-uncle was killed in the trenches of World War I.
  — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
• Coogler never knew his grandfather; his great-uncle is now also deceased, but as a youth Coogler spent a lot of time with him.
  — Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
• His maternal great-uncle was none other than Sitting Bull.
  — David Treuer, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
• On the Wall of the Missing, her great-uncle’s name is now marked with a rosette, indicating that he has been found.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
• Two of Cordero’s great-uncles were abducted in 1973 and never found.
  — Pascale Bonnefoy, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• And, of course, his late grandfather Paul and his great-uncle Martin both played for Palace in the top flight.
  — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
• But there’s also the one from the trial — when Till’s great-uncle is identifying the men who murdered his nephew.
  — Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
• His great-uncle, Isaac Fuller, said the family had just buried Fuller’s mother in May.
  — Gillian Stawiszynski, The Enquirer, 10 July 2025
• Kevin Kline, a real estate agent in northern Virginia, said he was always told that his great-uncle's remains were on the ship.
  — ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026
• His father was a former boxer, and his great-uncle Iran Barkley had been a middleweight boxing world champion.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Aug. 2026
• My great-uncle remembers his grandfather as a large and commanding presence, nearly seven feet tall in his casket.
  — Jeffrey Bennett, Time, 31 Mar. 2026