Example sentences for: father-in-law

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

  • The most widely published photograph across western Europe was of Mohammed al Fayed, the Egyptian owner of the London department store Harrods (and now-never-to-be father-in-law of Princess Diana), holding on his head a diamond and platinum coronet that had been reduced in the Harrods sale from $400,000 to just under $300,000.

  • He did it because he was bored working for his father-in-law's law firm.

  • My father-in-law got me Ethan Coen's short-story collection Gates of Eden for Christmas because I'm so fond of the Coen brothers' movies.

  • Abandon him to that sumbitch Starr, until he started talking about our use of his father-in-law as a front, about the Rose files in his basement, about what Vince Foster had been working on?

  • By marrying his daughters to sons of the reigning emperor and then engineering timely abdications, a Fujiwara contrived always to be father-in-law, uncle, or grandfather behind the throne.


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