Example sentences for: niece

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

  • I draw an analogy between that and the time I heard my German landlady announce that she was going to a wedding between her niece and a “very nice Jewish boy,” suggesting strongly that “this German” harbored no prejudice towards Jews.

  • When a white boss promotes his niece, he is discriminating against some whites (the ones who aren't in his family), but against all blacks.

  • Prudence, our advice columnist, has retired, and her column has been taken over by her niece, also named Prudence.

  • Glenn Close plays Camille Orcutt, Cookie's histrionic niece and the director of the church theatricals (currently Oscar Wilde's Salome ), whose hysterical obsession with hiding the "disgraceful" truth throws the town into an uproar.

  • The father, to obtain financial support from his wealthy brother (Carl Reiner), volunteers to take in his vaguely schizzy, dipsomaniacal niece (Marisa Tomei).


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