Example sentences for: uncle

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

  • Liberté , égalité , T&A: Marianne, France's buxom equivalent of Uncle Sam, is best known as the topless revolutionary in Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People .

  • ' DRG `Diagnosis Related Group,' the term Uncle Sam uses to describe prospective payment to a hospital, could mean `Damned Regulatory Government' to the medical profession or `De [The] Revenues Gone' to the hospital administration.

  • Many pundits--Al Hunt (CNN's Capitol Gang ), Steve Roberts and Susan Page (CNN's Late Edition ), and Juan Williams ( Fox News Sunday )--praise Senator Kennedy's eulogy for his nephew and remark that Uncle Ted has finally emerged as a worthy family patriarch.

  • In the past, Uncle Ned has been known to make rude and/or offensive statements about people of color, overweight people, those struggling with addictions, men under 5'4", children, homosexuals, virgins, teetotalers, and registered Democrats.

  • An uncle was in the chorus of one of those doughboy musicals after World War I. The Steins are not the Barrymores, but there is Ben on the screen.


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