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 | [e-mail], 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
• In the song, Simón dies alone in 1986 without familial support, due to a mystery illness.
  — Quispe López, Them, 28 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The King wants the mermaid's life force to achieve immortality, but a young woman, who has familial ties to the king, wants to save the creature.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2022
• 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
• Every letter was a step toward the goal—if not a unified Germany, then at least a unified German people, connected by words, and by familial bickering about their meaning.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024