Example sentences for: son-in-law

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

  • But if he sinned against his daughter and her gender by giving his Wunderkind son-in-law the controlling interest in the Post (no man should have to work for his wife, the old man said), then Graham surely sinned against her eldest child, journalist Lally, for handing the keys to the Washington Post Co. to the younger Donald.

  • While the father can be friendly and caring to his daughter's live-in boyfriend, he is not a son-in-law and shouldn't be treated as such.

  • While Allen calls the wedding, which makes him Farrow's son-in-law, a "wonderful thing," Farrow family spokesman Dr. Stephen Herman, a child psychiatrist, is quoted in the Globe as denouncing it: "rude, nasty and most of all, it's a reflection of his own narcissism."

  • The DNC has kept a $450,000 contribution from an Indonesian couple, Soraya and Arief Wiriadinata . Soraya and Arief are the daughter and son-in-law of Hashim Ning, co-founder of the Lippo Group , a $6 billion Indonesian banking conglomerate.

  • When a son-in-law defected to Jordan in 1995, Saddam enticed him back to Iraq with promises of forgiveness, but then had him assassinated.


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