nephew

Example Sentences

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I’ll cook food depending on who all’s coming over — my nephews and various friends and so on.

From Los Angeles Times

John Shaw, Magnus’s deputy, is a brute and a bully; Abel Walker, Magnus’s nephew, is a young innocent; Tom Hearn is a sailor who trained as a cleric and speaks the indigenous languages.

From The Wall Street Journal

MW: I go down to Texas to work with my nephew Poncho.

From Los Angeles Times

It was built by the Arctic explorer Rear Admiral Sir John Ross, whose nephew James Clark Ross would later discover the magnetic North Pole.

From BBC

Yao seemed to be some kind of a nephew to the master, which was why, if this place of nightmares had been a classroom, he’d have been the prefect.

From Literature