Example sentences for: great-aunt

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

  • In an open court, I would have explained that my great-aunt lived there for twenty years and never stopped calling it MADGE-ORCA, and even if I gave up calling it MADGE-ORCA I would instead call it MALLYORCA, and not the odd in-betweeny MEEYORCA.

  • Put that pair in your personal ad, and you'll be dating my aunt Helen (if you're a man) or my uncle Morty (if you're a neat and prudent gay man) or my uncle Herb (if you're a straight woman and his mother, my great-aunt Selma, says it's OK).

  • A great-aunt had the candy concession in a Yiddish theater on the Lower East Side of New York City.


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