brothers

Example Sentences

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The defenseman’s sessions with his younger brothers, New Jersey Devils players Jack and Luke, are the stuff of legend.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Two of his brothers were leaders of the powerful city firefighters union.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Asif Ali and Saagar Shaikh play spoiled Pakistani-American brothers thrown from a life of wealth and leisure to suddenly leading their deceased father’s Philadelphia crime empire, along with Poorna Jagannathan as their scene-stealing auntie/enforcer.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

In 1836, William Lloyd Garrison, the antislavery crusader, sat for a cranial exam with the brothers Lorenzo and Orson Fowler, but opted to conceal his identity from the pair of phrenologists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

As we passed the Austins’, I didn’t see Jeb, but his brothers and sisters were all sitting on the fence, waving.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney