How to Use uncle in a Sentence

uncle

noun

• I have three uncles and two aunts.
• My Uncle David is visiting next week.
• The two women did so and have been at the uncle’s house since.
  — Miho Inada, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• Her great-great uncle, David Kalakaua, was the last king.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• The life of a son, a brother, a brother-in-law, and an uncle.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2023
• Frye's uncle said his nephew had gone to the store for his brother.
  — Amanda Su, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2022
• The move to the Phoenix area to live with his uncle, Carlos Burgos, has helped.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
• In 1994, his uncle was killed by the Taliban, who hanged his body from the barrel of a tank.
  — Matthieu Aikins Bryan Denton, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• Fox pulled the 94-pounder aboard with help from his uncles and his father.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• As a boy, Thomas spent countless hours on his uncle’s farm — Grace Acres — and the woods around it.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• My uncle, a chef, often refers to the broth as liquid gold.
  — Isa Zapata, Bon Appétit, 3 Oct. 2023
• His cousins would soon be heading south to spend a week with their uncle.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
• There were no cousins next door, no aunts or uncles in the neighborhood to go to.
  — Souvankham Thammavongsa, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• My uncle plays the piano, and my mother’s cousin sings on the guitar.
  — Zaina Arafat, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• His father and uncle, who learned the art in Mexico in the 1980s, taught him.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2024
• Mando had played the keyboard in his uncles’ band in grade school.
  — Cat Cardenas, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2023
• Then, at around 6:30 A.M., Maram’s uncle Nader comes to our room.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Even his own uncle is expected to take the stand against him.
  — Keegan Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
• Open it and look through it to bug your sister (my uncle) or mother (me).
  — Gisele Grayson, NPR, 23 May 2024
• Karten's uncle, Sharon Edri, was murdered by Hamas in 1996.
  — Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2023
• One of them was his uncle, saying that his wife and children were dead.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
• Set in 1970s Japan, Tomoko is sent to stay with her oddball aunt and uncle in their mansion.
  — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 31 July 2024
• Nardin watch from the ’40s, which was made for my uncle, Hubert de Watteville.
  — Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2024
• Her mother and several of her uncles all served in the armed forces.
  — Heather L. Whitley, Southern Living, 24 Apr. 2024
• Tex was Combs' great uncle's name, while Lawrence is Nicole's father's name.
  — Jack Irvin, PEOPLE.com, 21 July 2022
• Baldwin visits a graveyard and finds the gravestone of a late uncle, born in 1866.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2024
• My uncle made out worse — he was shot and killed in Mexico.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 15 Oct. 2024
• At The Grand, Luna looked like a proud uncle who wanted to greet every last niece and nephew.
  — Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• Ware’s uncle, Carlos Pedraza, said the horse is a quarter horse.
  — Tiffani Arnold, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2024
• They had been married there the year before, at the home of his uncle, an investment banker, who urged them to buy a house nearby, and to get professional financial advice.
  — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024