How to Use three sisters in a Sentence

three sisters

plural noun
  • My siblings — three sisters and one brother who has passed on — say the same thing.
    Esther Ndumi Ngumbi, NPR, 10 May 2026
  • Johnny, his mother, his three sisters and their spouses.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 21 June 2026
  • Mike remembers taking his three sisters to school.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026
  • The paparazzi caught the three sisters out and about in New York City in 2024.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 11 July 2026
  • Part of a big family with four brothers, three sisters and 18 nieces and nephews, she was described as a soul who brought comfort to those around her.
    Maveah Griffith, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2026
  • As readers know, the three sisters eventually hit upon more suitable employment.
    Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The rule of three or the three sisters planting method, commonly known as companion planting, is the practice of growing corn, beans, and squash together.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 4 May 2026
  • Dean and Denise Newsom PorchDiane Hill Denise was the youngest of three sisters.
    Sarah Dahlberg, NBC news, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Kelly Gorbatenko, one of three sisters from Barrington on the Badgers roster, scored the opening goal.
    Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
  • Chawla was born in New Delhi, India, and came to the United States as a toddler with her mother and three sisters.
    Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
  • My book traces the story of these three sisters painted by Renoir to see how the effects of Dreyfus, of ever-rising antisemitism and two world wars, governed their lives.
    Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
  • Unlike his three sisters, Branwell, his artistic career stunted by alcoholism and an opium addiction, never published.
    Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • Since then, the quartet has toured together, collaborated on music, and it’s been reported that the three sisters will attend Swift’s wedding to Travis Kelce this summer.
    Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 11 June 2026
  • My parents packed me and my three sisters into a beige AMC Hornet, a flagship of nineteen-seventies American automotive decline.
    Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
  • The following year, the three sisters got together again — this time, with Jamie and their brother Ben — to ring in Tony’s 80th birthday party at the MGM Grand on June 25, 2005.
    Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE, 1 June 2026

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