How to Use familial in a Sentence

familial

adjective
  • The company has created a familial atmosphere in its offices.
  • Common rooms were small then, but add to the cozy, familial feel.
    Bill Pennington, New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • What movie screams more about familial love than this one?
    Larry Stansbury, Good Housekeeping, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Guilbeau’s start in the culinary world is a familial one.
    Wire Services, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • But that familial tie didn’t extend to Lopez and the network.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 26 July 2022
  • The poems include bloody dramas, familial and cosmic, set in the space of the kitchen.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
  • Anyone craving even more familial ties to the movie need only to wait a few episodes.
    Jesse Hassenger, Chron, 30 Nov. 2022
  • John and Adrianne’s familial harmonies give the songs an extra glow and warmth.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 11 June 2022
  • The whole thing is dark and relentless with plot turns that make this about familial secrets and the bonds of parents and children.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 19 July 2024
  • Years after Lawrence was killed, a familial DNA match was found, police said.
    Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Find an ideal familial setting at the Brass Lantern Inn.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2024
  • That familial love could so easily turn to hate, but the hate was always there, just like the gun, under the surface, ready to go off.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Despite the years of familial fighting, both Nick and Aaron shared their grief on social media.
    Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2023
  • So, perhaps in this latest context, the choice of blue was both a display of familial unity and an ode to the princess herself.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The role in the Hulu series took a certain type of courage for Weaver, 43, who portrayed a family tragedy and close familial bond.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Someone should do the same for Thanksgiving, a familial stress-and-guilt machine.
    John Hodgman, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Scripture offers plenty of guidance about the role and traits of mothers and familial love.
    Blair Donovan, Country Living, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Each familial unit packed their cars with TVs, suitcases, boxes, and snacks to take across the border.
    Natalie Arroyo Camacho, refinery29.com, 16 July 2024
  • To what extent is love—romantic love, familial love, love of the planet—a guiding force in your work?
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Along the way, the two slowly form a familial bond that throws Joel’s original task into upheaval.
    Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Amid his work and familial obligations, Cera has been short on free time lately.
    Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • There's a weird familial connection to Fort Greene Park.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Her dancers break into a familiar and familial dance — the Electric Slide.
    Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Twice this season, the conversation narrowed in on a bit of familial trash talk.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2024
  • In the case of Edward Norton and Pocahontas, Gates said the paper trail was the final proof in the familial pudding.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
  • It’s been my familial role for 20 years — and usually my siblings and our spouses are happy to step aside.
    Heidi Mitchell, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Five boys are stuck at the school, unable to go home, whether owing to familial disorder or, in the case of a Korean boy, distance.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Many of the subjects’ stories are astonishing, and each is unique, even if the forces that shaped them — hardship, war, familial ties — are not.
    Jenny G. Zhang, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Those against say the bar for what constitutes familial trauma has become too low, and that some kids who cut off all contact are being selfish.
    Jeanette Tran, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The scene is a painfully ordinary form of familial strife, but with an extraordinary twist: the facility itself is owned by MI5 and packed with retired spooks.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024

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