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My in-laws live deep in the woods, and I always take a moment to step outside at night when we visit.

When her father died, Shakila and her in-laws were traveling from the funeral when they got into a car accident.

She entered into the marriage, but was ruthlessly beaten by her in-laws and her husband.

I got my first taste of L.A. in college, when I began to visit my future in-laws over Christmas break.

He married an Afghan women, and his new in-laws demanded he move with them to their native Jalalabad.

Lady Byron, on the other hand, with very imperfect understanding of her sister-in-laws character, was entirely at her mercy.

His father-in-laws aggressively noisy manner of imbibing soup had long been a thorn in the flesh to Maurice.

Thus it was, that the blind and loathsome worm passed, all too late, from her brother-in-laws domestic life.

In his altercations with Southey she was, of course, altogether on her brother-in-laws side.

But I saw more of her that evening than I did of Harry, who was hopelessly entangled with two or three 'in-laws.'

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On this page you'll find 182 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to in-laws, such as: clan, folk, group, house, household, and people.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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