Example sentences for: stepfather

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

  • When Newt, age 19, married his high-school math teacher against his stepfather's wishes, Bob Gingrich not only refused to come to the wedding, he wouldn't let Newt's mother or sisters attend, either.

  • I am having an ongoing ordeal over whether my 12-year-old daughter should refer to her stepfather as "Dad," "Stepdad," or by his first name.

  • Clinton craves the affection that his abusive, alcoholic stepfather and abused, fun-loving mother didn't provide him as a child.

  • Or is it his no-goodnik stepfather?

  • In linking Lee's self-destructiveness to the culture in which he's enmeshed, Allen reminds me of Newt Gingrich, who blamed Susan Smith's drowning of her children on liberals and the counterculture, before it was revealed that the young woman's disturbed psyche had more to do with the nocturnal visits of her stepfather, a higher-up in the state's Republican Party.


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