Example sentences for: uncle

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

  • (Dorothy in the barnyard of the Gale farm, to Auntie Em and Uncle Henry, about her dog Toto and Miss Gulch, who hates the dog.)

  • God bless the day when no one's Uncle Ed will be able to lean across the Thanksgiving table and say, "So I hear you're working for the labor movement.

  • Police Commissioner Howard Safir says he wants "Be all you can be, or Uncle Sam wants you, or something like that."

  • (I loved it when she uttered banalities about needing to let one's elderly parents retain an illusion of control, and Tony turned that into a sneaky strategy for letting Uncle Junior think he was fronting the crew, when Tony was really running things.)

  • Ripping, whopper `lie,' nunky for `uncle,' take a pew `seat,' on their jiggers `bicycles,' playing the goat, a measly solicitor, cad, and rotter, and similar expressions were all part of typical schoolboy slang before World War II, and F.R.


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