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Niece in sentence

294 examples of Niece in a sentence

I really didn't understand why the niece committed suicide - it was plain to me that "Eva" had hitched-up with every male in The South.
This Movie was to funny , The trailers don't do enough justice for this movie , I didn't want to see this film but my niece dragged me and I'm glad that I went I laughed the whole time.
Ending the War on EducationHONOLULU – My three-year-old niece believes strongly in the power of “the good guys.”
We met the niece and son of a farmer caught in the “buffer zone” between the Israeli border and Gaza.
Moreover, she is now being challenged within her own party by her much younger and more intellectually impressive niece, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, who spoke just ahead of US Vice President Mike Pence at February’s Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) gathering in Washington, DC.
Although she abandoned a push to rebrand the FN “Bleu Marine,” owing to the original brand’s enduring appeal to its older voters, that approach reflects the personality cult that she has fostered, characterized by the suppression of dissent and even of her own niece, Marion Maréchal Le Pen, a rising political star.
Moreover, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, Le Pen’s niece and one of the party’s two MPs, is a prominent member of the National Front-sponsored France-Europe-Russia group, which advocates a “multipolar” – or, more accurately, a less American – world.
Within days of Trump’s election, the New York Times reported, “Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, Marine Le Pen’s niece and a rising force in the National Front, tweeted, ‘I answer yes to the invitation of Stephen Bannon… to work together.”
Many of these tools are funded by the Sunlight Foundation (I sit on its board), the Knight Foundation, and CodeforAmerica (my niece Lauren Dyson works there).
As I was leaving for the polling station, my niece Masha, a first-year college student, pointed out, “Putin is the only leader I have ever known.”
As Fatima Bhutto, the niece of the assassinated Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto, wrote, though Pakistan’s “recent history has been bloody,” the country’s “long history with military dictatorships and experience of terrorism and uncertainty means that my generation of Pakistanis have no tolerance, no appetite, for jingoism or war.”
At the time when he was Governor of a Province, Anna's aunt, a rich provincial lady, introduced him, who though not a young man was a young Governor, to her niece, and contrived to put him in such a position that he was obliged either to propose or leave the town.
Serezha was in too high spirits, too happy not to share with his friend the hall-porter another family joy about which he had heard from Lydia Ivanovna's niece whom he met walking in the Summer Gardens.
'I met Nadenka' (Nadenka was Lydia Ivanovna's niece, who was being educated at her aunt's house).
His father punished Serezha by not letting him go to see Lydia Ivanovna's niece Nadenka, but this punishment turned out luckily for Serezha.
One of them, the Right Reverend Bishop of ----, the Marechale's uncle, had the patronage of benefices, and, it was said, could refuse nothing to his niece.
'Here I am suddenly brought into close personal contact with a friend of the famous Marechale de Fervaques, the all-powerful niece of the Lord Bishop of ----, through whom one becomes a Bishop in France.
The venerable prelate, in whose hands was the list of benefices, added as a postscript to one of his niece's letters: 'That poor Sorel is nothing worse than a fool, I hope that he will be restored to us.'
Miss Peyton moved from her own seat to the one next her niece, and, kindly taking her hand, observed, "You should not suffer the impetuosity of your brother to affect you so much; boys, you know, are proverbially ungovernable."
Miss Peyton was a close observer of these movements of her niece, and advancing with an air of feminine dignity, inquired,-"Then, sir, we may expect the pleasure of Major Dunwoodie's company shortly?"
"You speak of him as if he were your mistress, Major Dunwoodie," observed the smiling spinster, glancing her eye at her niece, who sat pale and listening, in a corner of the room.
The angel I saw may be a daughter, a sister, or a niece, - but never an aunt."
The wounded officer followed her with his eyes, as she moved, with infantile grace, through the door of his apartment, and as she vanished from his view, he observed,-"Such an aunt and niece are seldom to be met with, Jack; this seems a fairy, but the aunt is angelic."
The observation of Miss Peyton seldom penetrated beyond things that were visible, and to her the situation of Henry Wharton seemed to furnish an awful excuse for the fading cheeks and tearful eyes of her niece.
Further conversation was interrupted by Miss Peyton, who, advancing, acquainted them that they had been invited to grace the nuptials of her eldest niece and Colonel Wellmere.
Miss Peyton withdrew in search of her youngest niece, whom she found in her own apartment, and in tears.
"Come, my love, the ceremony waits but for us," said the aunt, affectionately entwining her arm in that of her niece.
But notwithstanding Miss Peyton had complied with her brother's wish to profit by the accidental visit of a divine, she had not thought it necessary to blazon the intended nuptials of her niece to the neighborhood, had even time been allowed; she thought, therefore, that she was now communicating a profound secret to the negro, and her housekeeper.
Miss Peyton and her niece flew, with a rapture that was blessed with a momentary forgetfulness of all but her preservation, to receive Sarah from the trooper; but the vacant eye and flushed cheek restored them instantly to their recollection.
"Sarah, my child, my beloved niece," said the former, folding the unconscious bride in her arms, "you are saved, and may the blessing of God await him who has been the instrument."
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