be one of the family

Example Sentences

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You are to be one of the family, so I am going to give you a piece of advice.

From The Riverman by White, Stewart Edward

He should be one of the family, living on equal terms with the others, and their constant companion.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

I am taken right in to be one of the family, and I have a good time every day now.

From Turn About Eleanor by Cootes, F. Graham

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

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