How to Use aunt in a Sentence

aunt

noun

• He has three aunts and two uncles.
• This is my Aunt Mary.
• This is the person who sent that out of the blue out- of- the blue email to Ria's aunt.
  — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
• His cousins, as well as his uncle and aunt, were among the people that lost their lives in the fire.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
• Out on the deck, James couldn’t help hoping she’d be taken to shore, to her aunt.
  — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
• Then his brother had dropped off González at an aunt’s house to sleep.
  — Kate Linthicum, Keri Blakinger and Connor Sheets, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
• Now is not the time to tell him that his aunt is really his birth mom.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• Maria’s aunt found the apartment door shut, but unlocked.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
• The house is where an aunt of the man from the mother's relationship lived.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 29 May 2023
• The 6-year-old ran to the front of the building and told her aunt what happened, according to the affidavit.
  — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 12 July 2023
• In a separate panel to the left, Joseph stands at the foot of the bed, looking at her mother and aunt.
  — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023
• As Marcos walked into the kitchen, his aunt was lost in worry.
  — Hannah Dreier Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• Two of his aunts taught music, and a younger brother played guitar.
  — John Blake, CNN, 25 Feb. 2024
• Her aunt later joined in on all the activities that the group had planned during the rest of their trip.
  — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2024
• First, Vera grew up with two strong women at the head of the household – her mother and her aunt.
  — Amy Scharf, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2024
• Cleves' aunt, Nicole Missio, called Saipov and his attack evil.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 17 May 2023
• Cook’s aunt, Annette Cook, said her niece lived in an apartment about a mile away from the shooting scene.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
• Her mother reappeared when Jessica was six and drove her from her aunt’s home to the South.
  — Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Luckey's aunt, Verde Luckey, braved the weather as well.
  — The Enquirer, 4 Apr. 2024
• Dianne was in New York with her aunt when the bomb detonated.
  — Kara Nelson, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
• One of his aunts has Type 1 diabetes and is running out of insulin.
  — Lauren Dunn, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
• The child’s aunt, Kelsia Oliver, wrote on a public post that the loss is a deep pain that the family is learning to process.
  — Rosana Hughes, ajc, 12 May 2023
• My aunts also carried fans in their purses at all times.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 25 May 2023
• But 3-4-5 times a week, a grandparent or aunt or second cousins would pop by unplanned.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
• His aunt, Xaundra Rodriguez, was too upset to talk on the phone but offered to share her thoughts about her nephew, who lived in Porter, via text.
  — Amy Lavalley, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2023
• Wiltschko collects cameras, and one of them is a 1960s-era Polaroid Land camera given to him by an aunt.
  — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• Slaughter is Chloe's aunt, according to the fundraiser.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2023
• To comfort her, an aunt promised to bring her a gift: a bottle of Shower to Shower baby powder.
  — Ellen Barry Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• As the mourning concluded at the cemetery and Amal's aunt placed a poster of the girl at the spot where she was killed, the disturbing hum of drones resumed overhead.
  — Diego Ibarra Sánchez, NPR, 29 Feb. 2024
• In a brief interview, Jones’s aunt Ikisha Payne said her nephew was walking to a grocery store when he was shot.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024