How to Use nephew in a Sentence

nephew

noun
  • My niece and nephew are no longer in the custody of their father.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Richards’ nephew, Lance Richards, confirmed the death in a Facebook post.
    Staff and Wire Reports, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
  • That's my worst fear, that my little nephew comes back like that.
    Alan Cohen, NBC News, 27 July 2023
  • This time, the mother of five was joined by just Paige, Ladd and nephew Stuart Smith.
    Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The actor was trying to help his nephew out of the snow near his home in Lake Tahoe when the Sno-Cat crushed him.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The result is Pliny the Younger, named after the nephew the elder Pliny adopted and raised.
    Jay R. Brooks, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Renner was trying to help his nephew out of the snow near his home in Lake Tahoe when the Sno-Cat crushed him at the start of the year.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 15 Nov. 2023
  • My teenage niece and nephew for a long time would just make fun of us by typing out their tap backs.
    Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Zlatko Vujic said his 25-year-old nephew was among those shot dead in Dubona.
    Jenny Gross, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • The nephew did not come back and the encounter escalated.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Another call came from a nephew, who had been at a rave in the desert when dozens of gunmen ringed the site.
    Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Since then, she’s been close to her young nephew, cuddling with him in photos.
    Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 21 Jan. 2024
  • She’s had to learn how to explain what happened to her nieces and nephews.
    Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 3 Apr. 2024
  • His nephew and two others were found dead on a roadside that evening.
    Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Maurice is survived by his nephew, Zach, and niece, Daria.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 30 Dec. 2023
  • One of them is my nephew, Chico Brown, Carlinhos Brown’s son.
    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Wade is also the legal guardian of his nephew, Dahveon Morris, 21.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The woman said her nephew, who was upstairs with three other children, had been shot in the leg.
    cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
  • But the senior citizen feared her nephew would steal from her.
    Matt Kempner, ajc, 23 June 2023
  • Her 5-month old nephew Sebastian is still, his face blue.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The film stars Jaafar Jackson, who is Michael Jackson’s nephew, as the music icon.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Still, Meitner closes the letter by telling her nephew.
    Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The 62-year-old, his wife, and two daughters were all killed when their home in Derna was washed away, his nephew Mohammed Sariyeh said.
    Samy Magdy and Yousef Murad, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • On flights, our neighbors told us about their own children or nieces and nephews.
    Emily Siner, NPR, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Throwing his own nephew under the bus cost him a lot within the family.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The cause was complications of Covid, his nephew Richard Nessel said.
    Sam Roberts, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The rabbit Nicholas was named after Noland’s son, and Brian was named after his nephew.
    Sidney Steele, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Some of Wilhelmina’s nieces and nephews have objected to the way the abbey had handled her body.
    Ruth Graham, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Her nephew said his family had been searching for her since the collapse.
    Roxana Saberi, CBS News, 30 May 2023
  • Her 10-year-old nephew would finally see and hug his mother.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023

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