Example sentences for: uncles

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

  • The young boys have to endure a kissing of aunts and suffer a slew of uncles .

  • (Of course, it could also be 100,000 people a day looking at one page each and turning away in disgust, or it could be 50 of my aunts, uncles, and cousins busily inflating the numbers by clicking up 2,000 pages a day.)

  • Fathers and uncles employ sons and nephews in family businesses, before any outsider.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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