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Nephew in sentence

316 examples of Nephew in a sentence

McDowell is in command carrying this heavy smell of pomp and greed("I'm a black sheep nephew with an itch")..you just love to hate him.
Then, years later, I rented it for my nephew to experience.
Why pack up and move to Arizona to be near your nephew, and begin killing housekeepers/live-in companions for their life savings of course.
Patimat Suleimanova, the Tsarnaevs’ aunt in Dagestan, explained that her older nephew never prayed before he went to America at age 16.“He didn’t even know what Islam was,” she told CNN.
Also killed in the attack was Jaber’s nephew, a policeman who had come to offer protection to his uncle.
After the death of her brother, Kim Jong-il, last year, Kim Kyong-hui was often seen accompanying her nephew on his inspection tours around the country.
Boutros Ghali, nephew of the former UN Secretary-General, Interior Minister Habib Aladli, and such powerful figures as Ibrahim Suleiman and Safwat Sharif are engaged in similar deals, sometimes in partnership with Mubarak’s sons.
With the assassination of King Faisal in 1975 by his nephew, the Sudeiri branch of the family became its dominant faction.
For many Palestinians, Qudwa, a soft-spoken, multi-lingual nationalist (and Arafat’s nephew), presents an acceptable face for Palestine locally and internationally.
His nephew was a hardliner during negotiations to release political prisoners, as well as during talks to end the street clashes of November 2011.
On a lighter note, Sarkozy’s Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand, the nephew of the former president, is being excoriated by the media for supporting Roman Polanski against efforts by the United States to extradite him to face punishment for the rape of a minor three decades ago.
While the Central Security Service, led by Saleh’s nephew Yahya, has received millions of dollars to fight al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Ahmar has been left out of the economic bonanza.
Its members, which included his nephew, Mao Yuanxin, his mistress, Zhang Yufeng, and Jiang Qing, his last wife – were as incompetent at governing as Kim, but, following the disaster of the Cultural Revolution, antagonism to them in the military and other state institutions was too widespread for them to last.
But my loan did help, eventually Hal's business recovered, my nephew was born and--much later--the apartment remodeling project came to a successful conclusion.
That changed last month, when the state of Massachusetts filed documents in a lawsuit against the company and 16 executives and members of the family, including Arthur Sackler’s nephew, Richard Sackler.
He heard his horses chewing hay; then how the master and his eldest son got ready and rode away for the night to pasture their horses; then how the soldier settled down to sleep on the other side of the barn with his nephew, their host's little son; he heard the boy in his treble voice imparting to his uncle his impressions of the dogs, which seemed to him terrible and enormous; then how the boy asked what those dogs were going to catch, and he heard how the soldier replied in a hoarse and sleepy voice that the sportsmen would go next day to the marshes and fire guns, adding, to stop the questioning: 'Sleep, Vaska, sleep, or else look out!'Soon the soldier himself began to snore, and all was still except for the neighing of the horses and the cry of snipe.
But now Oblonsky saw that it was useless even to think of that; he was, however, glad to see his nephew.
Paul Négrel, M. Hennebeau's nephew, was a young man of twenty-six, refined and handsome, with curly hair and brown moustache.
And there were reticences, and implications; he was talking of the manager, M. Hennebeau, of his wife, of his nephew, the little Négrel, without naming them, repeating that this could not go on, that things were bound to smash up one of these fine days.
"I believe that the nephew and the aunt--What baffles me is that Madame Hennebeau should throw herself so on Cécile's neck."
To disguise this kindness M. Hennebeau spoke of the embarrassment to a young man of setting up a household in one of those little villas reserved for the mine engineers, Madame Hennebeau had at once taken the part of a good aunt, treating her nephew with familiarity and watching over his comfort.
And besides, on the following day his wife spoke to him about the choice of Cécile Grégoire which she had made for her nephew.
For a moment M. Hennebeau, seeing the close understanding between his wife and his nephew, felt that abominable suspicion again revive, as if in this exchange of looks he had surprised a physical contact.
When neither his wife nor his nephew animated the place with their presence the house seemed empty.
Then their nephew arrived, this Paul to whom she became a mother, and to whom she spoke of her dead heart buried for ever beneath the ashes.
This misfortune would arrange everything; he preferred to keep his nephew for fear of his coachman.
This was a nephew of M. de La Mole, recently appointed to the See, who had been selected to exhibit the relic to the King.
M. de La Mole, who had secured a bishopric for his nephew, had chosen to pay him the compliment of bearing the whole of the expense himself.
He was a nephew of the Academician, Madame de La Mole's friend, and was intended for a literary career.
N----, the Academician, who has been paying assiduous court for the last fifteen years, has never been able to obtain it for his nephew M. Tanbeau.''It is to me, Sir, the most tedious part of my employment.
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