How to Use in-law in a Sentence

in-law

noun
  • All of this, over the prospect of some in-law apartments?
    Molly Osberg, Curbed, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Moore’s in-law’s home was one of the many affected by the fires.
    Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Moore’s in-law’s home was one of the many affected by the fires.
    Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The husband flies out, and the wife waits for a visa while living with her in-laws.
    Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 13 June 2023
  • My sister-in-law has lived with my in-laws for four years.
    Dear Annie, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Haskell shared a home with his wife and in-laws in the 4100 block of Coldstream Terrace in Tarzana.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • My in-laws would ask me about my work, about my parents.
    Hazlitt, 2 Apr. 2025
  • If it’s not needed for the happy couple, maybe the in-laws?
    Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2025
  • The power was out at my in-laws' house a few miles away in Studio City.
    Matt Gutman, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • My husband and my mom and my in-laws were home for the duration of my shoot.
    Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 May 2023
  • My wife was the daughter and she and her brother are the executors to the last of my in-laws to pass away.
    Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The beaches were stunning, the ocean was warm, my future in-laws were kind.
    Raksha Vasudevan, New York Times, 6 June 2023
  • Police found his wife and in-laws dead in different parts of the store.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
  • These dinners, which used to be at the in-laws’ house, are now held at my daughter’s house.
    Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2023
  • And, if my in-laws are anything to go by, the evening repast was a light meal of soup, bread and leftovers from lunch.
    Jamie Schler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • This is not the moment to be caught up in one-upmanship with an in-law.
    R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Ask for a meeting with your spouse and your in-laws, or even just you and whoever runs the house.
    Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • At the in-laws’ suggestion, my son and daughter each bring a friend on these trips.
    Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 23 July 2024
  • Question: My in-laws are planning to sell their Bay Area home.
    Pat Kapowich, The Mercury News, 11 May 2024
  • That's Becky's daughter in-law, Dana Nichols, who is married to her son, Ben.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2025
  • That's Becky's daughter in-law, Dana Nichols, who is married to her son, Ben.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Every year, my family spends a week at the beach with my in-laws.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 23 July 2024
  • Miller said his family, not his in-laws, should take care of the children.
    Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
  • The trouble is that my in-laws have no respect for our household rules.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Serve the corn with butter and salt, or enjoy it as my in-laws do—with nothing at all!
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 July 2024
  • There's a main house, an in-law house, a manager's house, a bunk house and three others.
    Catherine Reagor, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The English actor was concerned with what his in-laws would say.
    Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
  • Her in-laws, visiting from out of state, hiked in with her husband to meet her.
    Chadd Cripe, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • There are eight Game 7s scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, so don’t make any big plans with the in-laws.
    James Mirtle, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • My daughter in-law is accusing me of preferring my grandson over her children, which is not the case.
    Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2025

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