Example sentences for: aunt

How can you use “aunt” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You will be, likely to jump for joy ( dar zapatetas `to give shoe sole slaps') and go on a spree ( echar una cana al aire `to toss gray hair into the air') if you can go shopping `every other day' un día sí y un día no at your `rich aunt's.

  • I'd sure be mad if I had to go live with that aunt, uncle, and cousin.

  • One of James' trademark innocents, Catherine is acted upon by three titanic forces: her father, Dr. Sloper (Albert Finney), whose express desire to protect a daughter he considers ugly and witless takes the form of ruthless repression; her aunt, (Maggie Smith), who wishes to weave out of her niece's life a breathlessly melodramatic romance; and Morris Townsend (Ben Chaplin), the playboy who has squandered a modest inheritance and now seeks salvation in the form of this unloved, unlovely, and affluent young woman.

  • Like her aunt, Prudie will be drawing upon her rich experience of life in responding to questions about manners, personal relations, politics, and other subjects.

  • Consider a typical long-distance telephone call from me in Washington, D.C., to my aunt in San Francisco.


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