How to Use great-aunt in a Sentence
great-aunt
noun-
Two of her great-aunts worked at the factory, and one of them, Rosie Weiner, died in the fire.
— Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023 -
The Navajo sought to have the child placed with her great-aunt, who lives on a reservation.
— Abbie Vansickle, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023 -
The issue is that his great-uncle jilted my great-aunt at the altar in the 1970s.
— Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024 -
Franklin, 54, was born in Fort Worth and raised by a great-aunt who took him to church every Sunday.
— Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 May 2024 -
My great-aunt was an AKA, and her chapter also helped raise me.
— Ebony Flake, Essence, 14 May 2024 -
At one point, my great-aunt was the master pastry chef at the Monastery [of the Angels] in Laurel Canyon.
— Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023 -
With the use of a slow shutter speed, Tarantino’s vision of his great-aunt is stilted, fuzzy.
— David Pisonero Tarantino, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2023 -
Montana, 12, says Quist and her store full of homemade crafts and knick-knacks is the coolest, and wants to follow in her great-aunt’s footsteps.
— Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023 -
This all changes when she is informed in the lead-up to Christmas that a great-aunt has left her a centuries-old manor home in the quaint English town of Plumhill.
— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 28 June 2024 -
The teenager was thrown into the windshield, flew into the air and landed face down in the road, according to his great-aunt, Dorothy Lynch.
— Faiz Siddiqui, Jeremy B. Merrill, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023 -
My great-aunt’s screams were so unbearable that others started pulling off her clothes, and with them skin.
— Maggie Levantovskaya, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2023 -
His grandma, Betty, and his great-aunts, all of whom lived colorful lives.
— Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2024 -
His great-aunt said the incident should serve as a warning about the dangers of the technology.
— Faiz Siddiqui, Jeremy B. Merrill, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023 -
She’ll be accompanied by her great-aunt, Kim Corzine, and her cousin, Krista, who’s Corzine’s daughter.
— Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2023 -
In the present day, Annie Adams has been summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances.
— Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024 -
In the present day, Annie Adams has been summoned to a meeting at the sprawling country estate of her wealthy and reclusive great-aunt Frances.
— Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023 -
If only there was a piece of antique furniture from a great-aunt, a Civil War saber from a distant cousin.
— Lisa Swander, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2024 -
His great-aunt took care of him and his brother until Teetz was forced to separate from his aunt to avoid reentry into the system.
— Jenna Barackman, Kansas City Star, 21 May 2024 -
Where was Brandon when he was taken? Brandon was staying with his great-aunt, Tawana Crawford.
— Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2023 -
Thompson has a daughter who is being raised by another great-aunt.
— Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024 -
In an interview earlier this month, Abigail’s great-aunt said the little girl’s parents were killed in their home at the Kfar Aza kibbutz.
— Josh Feldman, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023 -
Normally my grandparents and I spent our Sundays having dinner with 20 or 30 cousins and great-aunts and -uncles.
— Xochitl Gonzalez, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2024 -
Whitney discovered Jemima Nicholas of Wales, his fifth-degree great-aunt on his mother’s side.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2023 -
In a novel that was one of my childhood favorites, 12-year-old Maggie goes to live with her two great-aunts at Adelphi Hills, a boarding school that closed after a tragic fire.
— The Week Staff, The Week, 27 Feb. 2023 -
Some of that fire still glows in the Morningside, the decrepit, historic luxury apartment building where Sil and her mother join her great-aunt, Ena, who is the super there.
— Sarah Chihaya, The New Yorker, 19 June 2024 -
Tevin spent time in the military Simone's older siblings, Ashley and Tevin, were adopted by their great-aunt and settled in Cleveland.
— Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 17 July 2024 -
Liz Hirsh Naftali, Edan’s great-aunt, was asked during Wednesday’s news conference about the child’s condition.
— Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023 -
But her earliest memories are from Benton Harbor, Michigan, where a great-aunt took her in.
— Ebony Flake, Essence, 14 May 2024 -
He is survived by his parents, his sister, his brother, his two nephews, his grandmother, his great-aunt and his two uncles.
— Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023 -
After their three-bedroom house burned down, the family were housed in a hotel then moved into a small studio on her great-aunt's property in Lahaina.
— Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2024
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