Example sentences for: uncle

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

  • A story making the local papers in recent weeks concerned a 2-year-old who was asphyxiated when his uncle tried to force oral sex on him.

  • More reserved and remote but a better administrator and financier than his uncle, Charles Brooke imposed on his men his own austere, efficient style of life.

  • One could read the text as an innocent pitch for a nifty product that could help Uncle Sam do his job.

  • So we learn that baby Jane drank from her mother's breast (before being farmed out to a nurse with the eye-catchingly contemporary name of Movie); that, while growing up, she may have tasted spicy Indian condiments shipped to Hampshire by her Uncle Tysoe Saul Hancock, who was stationed in Calcutta with the East India Co.; and that she probably began to menstruate at the age of 15 or 16.

  • Of course, Uncle Chester, along with Slats Grobnik and Aunt Wanda, didn't really exist.


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