brother-in-law

Example Sentences

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Each year on the first night of Hanukkah, Goldstein waits for a call from his brother-in-law where they wish each other well on the holiday and chat about their respective lighting ceremonies.

From Los Angeles Times

"The family broke. They are falling apart," his brother-in-law Rabbi Mendel Kastel told reporters after a sleepless night.

From BBC

My brother-in-law and sister-in-law are newlyweds and organizing the trip, and at every family gathering they bring it up.

From MarketWatch

When the narrator’s brother-in-law speaks too frankly, she reflects that what he said “was true, but I didn’t think it was right for him to say it.”

From The Wall Street Journal

It followed a widowed father named Danny who enlists his brother-in-law Jesse and best friend Joey to help him raise his three daughters after his wife's death.

From BBC