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Example sentences for: uncles

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

Fathers and uncles employ sons and nephews in family businesses, before any outsider.
As in any collection of family pictures, there’s a preponderance of portraits, though here the aunts and uncles tend to be princesses, cardinals, and popes.
The young boys have to endure a kissing of aunts and suffer a slew of uncles .
You might say, "Well, he sounds Jewish," or "The actor is Jewish," or "Mel Brooks and Sid Caesar played his uncles," but that skirts the issue, which is how Jews are portrayed on television.
By his 15 th birthday, in 1810, he had lost both parents, a brother, and two uncles.