aunt

Example Sentences

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As would “Little Bear Ridge Road,” Samuel D. Hunter’s savagely unsentimental study of an estranged aunt and nephew picking through the wreckage of their family history.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

The inquest, at Bootle Town Hall in Sefton, heard Chiedza, from Cheshire, had gone to stay with an aunt and two cousins in Bolton, Greater Manchester, for the half-term holiday.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

I lived in the basement of a distant aunt I’d never met, and the commute from Jamaica, Queens, was over an hour.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

His family boarded a flight from Beirut to Sydney, sponsored by his aunt Janette, who had fled to the country earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

“Yep, Dessy’s biscuits were downright Wonders,” Pa added, and he and my aunt laughed even harder.

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