How to Use aunt in a Sentence

aunt

noun

• He has three aunts and two uncles.
• This is my Aunt Mary.
• This is the person who sent that out of the blue out- of- the blue email to Ria's aunt.
  — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
• In the book, her aunt died, but Stephen knows that’s not true.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 Nov. 2024
• Amos moved to New York City at age 12 to live with an aunt.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
• Michele’s aunt, who is in her 80s, kicked off her heels and headed to the floor.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2022
• The same Ever who’d come for my aunt all those years ago.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2024
• And then my aunt took all four of us, my siblings and I in, and took care of us.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2023
• My aunt grabbed me in her right hand and my brother in her left.
  — John D. Pearse, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2024
• There’s so many threads that get tied up in the aunt and the mother, and part of that is [to] make do and reuse.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 12 Dec. 2024
• She’s like your great aunt on her way to play mini golf.
  — Sarah Fentem, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2022
• His cousins, as well as his uncle and aunt, were among the people that lost their lives in the fire.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
• Out on the deck, James couldn’t help hoping she’d be taken to shore, to her aunt.
  — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
• Then his brother had dropped off González at an aunt’s house to sleep.
  — Kate Linthicum, Keri Blakinger and Connor Sheets, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
• Now is not the time to tell him that his aunt is really his birth mom.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• When their aunt and uncle are over, the kids’ own manners regress.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
• They were both raised by their aunts, not their mothers.
  — Dean Baquet, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
• Maria’s aunt found the apartment door shut, but unlocked.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
• Anything to do with his 80-year-old aunt meant a lot to Behar.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
• Vuitsik’s aunt, cousins, and mother-in-law all made the trek across the border.
  — Tim Rizzo, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
• The house is where an aunt of the man from the mother's relationship lived.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 29 May 2023
• Rosie is the aunt of Wordlaw and Sherica is the cousin of Wordlaw.
  — Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2024
• The 6-year-old ran to the front of the building and told her aunt what happened, according to the affidavit.
  — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 12 July 2023
• In a separate panel to the left, Joseph stands at the foot of the bed, looking at her mother and aunt.
  — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023
• Dream opted for a blow-up alien costume, standing with her aunt and cousins in the snap.
  — Hannah Sacks, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
• Like her aunt, the teen wore a pair of eye-catching statement earrings.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
• The two girls were only six years apart, so closer to sisters than aunt and niece.
  — Kyani Reid, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2022
• Weeks later, his aunt was rushed to the hospital with covid.
  — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
• As Marcos walked into the kitchen, his aunt was lost in worry.
  — Hannah Dreier Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• For Coben, who weaved in storylines about Kat’s aunts and her friendships amid the tension, this adaptation has been the most moving of all of his previous work.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 1 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 22 Jan 2025