Example sentences for: daughters

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

  • They should also, according to most proverbs, be large: There is no light in the house without children; Nobody knows when a man without daughters dies .

  • You'll remember that Barbara Kurth is the mother whose daughters were kidnapped by her ex-husband, Stephen Fagan, who changed his name and lived in shadowy splendor in Palm Beach Florida, raising "the girls" as they are always called (they're now 21 and 23), having told them their mother died in a car crash.

  • My sister has three adorable daughters, one aged 8 and twins aged 4. I do not yet have children of my own, so I visit my nieces as often as possible.

  • Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which relocates King Lear on an Iowa farm, has been adapted into "an ungainly, undigested assembly of 'women's issues' " (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Critics call its screenplay soap-operatic: The Lear figure (Jason Robards) molests his daughters (Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jennifer Jason Leigh), who babble in lengthy pop-psych disquisitions.

  • Another spur to kiddie-cash collectors is that the FEC has never shown much interest in pursuing the issue (though two adult daughters of one big giver, Harold C. Simmons, recently sued their father for dipping into their trust funds to make contributions in their names).


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