How to Use great-aunt in a Sentence

great-aunt

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• In the mid-seventies, Saar began incorporating into her work objects once owned by her great-aunt Hattie, who died in 1975.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024