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Uncle
"Uncle" in a Sentence (14 examples)
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.
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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
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