How to Use great-uncle in a Sentence

great-uncle

noun

• My strong great-uncle, swinging from the rafters, lost weight.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• The boys’ great-uncle, Charles Cooper Sr., said the event was beautiful.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• Two of Cordero’s great-uncles were abducted in 1973 and never found.
  — Pascale Bonnefoy, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• But there’s also the one from the trial — when Till’s great-uncle is identifying the men who murdered his nephew.
  — Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
• Some, like Cohen’s great-uncle, had their number removed.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• Some 40 years ago his great-uncle built a tennis club there, on what was a clay-pigeon shooting range, and Alcaraz’s grandfather, Carlos, joined in the venture.
  — Gaby Wood, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2023
• Toward the end of the movie, Mahito stumbles on a possible vision of his own future, though the question of who this elder sage is — Natsuko’s great-uncle?
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• Lyons is a third-generation family farmer, the heir to a farming dynasty that began when his great-uncle E. T. Mape came over from Ireland.
  — Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
• One of Maram’s great-uncles, Fayez, is pushing a wheelchair carrying Maram’s ninety-year-old great-grandmother.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• In Luling, Yeni, her parents, aunts, and grandmother settled into a cramped house with a tin roof that was down the street from her great-uncles, the first members of the family to discover the town’s decent jobs, in the oil fields.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• If your fiance’s great-uncle got wind of the fact that he was being falsely accused and that your great-aunt not only didn’t love him but was after him for financial gain, who can blame him for running?
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024
• My great-uncle, Dennis Lubin, designed the Ardell logo and branding, which the company still uses today.
  — Linne Halpern, ELLE, 21 June 2023
• Dominik has followed his father and great-uncle into professional wrestling with WWE.
  — Adam England, Peoplemag, 19 May 2024
• Her great-uncle leads the family in ardas, a Sikh prayer, every year to express gratitude at everyone being together.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
• When his great-uncle dies, Norman inherits the responsibility of enacting an annual ritual to protect the town from a 300 year old witch's curse.
  — Danny Horn, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2023
• To create his marketplace, Hidalgo returned to Mexico several times and met with old relatives, including a great-uncle who was a general in the army.
  — Héctor Tobar Deb Leal, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• Crates of books, encyclopedias, grammars, lexicons, manuals of science and theology, the library of Julia’s great-uncle, Gundolf Klopps.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
• Marrero’s grand-nephew Antonio, who is bisexual, talks about how a strain of homophobia that persists within his family prevented him from learning his great-uncle’s story earlier.
  — Time, 7 July 2023

Last Updated: 12 Aug 2024