be one of the family

Example Sentences

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There's only one advantage about it that I can see—Tützi will be one of the family now....

From In Brief Authority by Anstey, F.

As I am to be one of the family, I'll tell you.

From The Bread-winners A Social Study by Hay, John

During the balance of that day he treated the wounded man just as though the intruder might be one of the family.

From Storm-Bound or, A Vacation Among the Snow Drifts by Douglas, Alan

I am one among our innumerable American teachers, reared on the Atlantic coast but admitted for this year to be one of the family at Stanford.

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry

Sabina did not wish to be one of the family at all, but she knew that she was under great obligations to her hosts, and she did not wish to be thought ungrateful.

From The Heart of Rome by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)