Example sentences for: father

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

  • By contrast, George W., a rich kid who, unlike his father, sat out the war of his generation, is Boy.

  • The divorcing Amy is marginally more believable as a woman whose life has taken a scary new turn than the unflappable single Syd ever was--Amy gets flustered; she doesn't know what to wear; her clothes don't seem designed to show off an improbably sculpted body, as Syd's do; she has no pat reasons for having left her husband; her mom, played by Tyne Daly, is pitch-perfect as the smart, confident older woman who quashes her daughter (she's a more compelling character than Syd's father, a wan veterinarian who can do no wrong); and Amy's own daughter--well, Amy's daughter is unbearable, a stereotypical know-it-all TV tyke.

  • Bradley would probably have an easier time with this question than Bush, because as a Democrat he is not required to believe that "reverse discrimination" is necessarily a terrible thing, and because athletic talent can plausibly be seen as a legitimate aspect of "merit," while choosing a father who went to Yale cannot.

  • Phaëthon, you'll remember, wanted to drive his father's car--that is, Apollo's--across the sky.

  • There are four slices leftand the divorced father doesn't want them wasted,there has been enough waste already; he sits there


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