Example sentences for: daughters

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

  • Franklin, a director of marvelous thrillers such as One False Move (1991) and Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), and of the intricate HBO miniseries Laurel Avenue (1993), must have taken on this project to prove that an African-American filmmaker can bring a fresh perspective to the white-bread tale of mothers and daughters in snowy New England.

  • They've seen corrupt governments, sadistic schoolmasters, domineering mothers who spoil their sons but train their daughters to be selfless clothes-washers, and feckless men whose only reason for living is to seduce women and then disappear.

  • Walker and Annie Turnbo Malone, two of the best-known entrepreneurs in African-American history, were both daughters of slaves, orphaned as children, who began as purveyors of black women's hair potions.

  • Eddy adopted a posture of world-weary dignity and behaved like the indulgent father of unruly daughters.

  • One True Thing taps into the same yearnings as Field of Dreams (1989), only for mothers and daughters instead of fathers and sons.


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