Uncle

Is your uncle still abroad?

Where does your uncle live?

The house with the red roof belongs to my uncle.

On arriving at the station, I went to see my uncle at his office.

My uncle has a store along the street.

Meanwhile, the foolish uncle was sitting in the living room.

He felt a resentment against his uncle for taking him in.

The man reading a paper over there is my uncle.

Uncle Bob fixed my clock. It keeps good time now.

Uncle Bob invited us to have dinner.

And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.

December 1843, William Makepeace Thackeray, "Grant in Paris" (review), in Fraser's Magazine A chain hangs out of the pocket of his velvet waistcoat , by which we may conclude that he has a watch , though we have known many gents whose watches were at their uncle's (as the fashionable term for the pawnbroker goes)

Plain old uncle as he [Socrates] was, with his great ears, — an immense talker.

Betelgeuse Five, where he both fathered and uncled Ford