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Uncle in sentence

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Not too long ago, my uncle said that he offered my six-year-old cousin cereal.
Their mother, their father, their aunt, their uncle, their grandparents, whoever it might have been who had gotten them to this point.
RG: I'm a very affectionate uncle, very affectionate uncle.
But her uncle, who was a university graduate, he wanted to give her an opportunity to see the world, to be part of the society.
He saw my uncle in jail.
But of course, I could never say anything, because the uncle is a respected figure in the Indian family.
And so as a response and as a gift to my uncle, I made him "The Uncle Phone."
It's exactly the way my uncle uses a phone that's designed for one person.
So my uncle is only dealing with a mechanical interface.
And of course, the object had to be very grand and have a sense of ritualism, the way my uncle likes it.
And he's summoned by his rich uncle, John Carter, to his mansion with a telegram saying, "See me at once."
But once he gets there, he's found out that his uncle has mysteriously passed away and been entombed in a mausoleum on the property.
You don't acquire the kind of wealth your uncle commanded by being like the rest of us, huh?
And even now, as you memorize the order of the planets, something else is slipping away, a state flower perhaps, the address of an uncle, the capital of Paraguay.
When his father died, his uncle trafficked him to work with him in the mines.
When his uncle died, Manuru inherited his uncle's debt, which further forced him into being enslaved in the mines.
And we are socially addicted to growth, because thanks to a century of consumer propaganda, which fascinatingly was created by Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud, who realized that his uncle's psychotherapy could be turned into very lucrative retail therapy if we could be convinced to believe that we transform ourselves every time we buy something more.
I'm just saying that you know when your birthday is by virtue of the fact that somebody tells you when your birthday is, a mother, a father, a sister, a brother, an aunt, an uncle, a cousin, a grandparent.
Sanford Meisner was my Uncle Artie yelling silently to himself, "Something's always wrong when nothing's always right."
Am I the one that you choose to disown as your child or your brother or your sister or your mother or your father, your neighbor, your cousin, your uncle, the president, your police woman or the fireman?
Suppose I were talking with you and I was introducing you to my uncle.
What my language would have forced me to do, instead of just telling you, "This is my uncle," is to tell you a tremendous amount of additional information.
My language would force me to tell you whether or not this was an uncle on my mother's side or my father's side, whether this was an uncle by marriage or by birth, and if this man was my father's brother, whether he was older than or younger than my father.
In fact, Gayla's uncle is still alive to this day, and learning how to waltz.
When I was 13, a close family friend who was like an uncle to me passed away from pancreatic cancer.
And so, hopefully one day, we can all have that one extra uncle, that one mother, that one brother, sister, we can have that one more family member to love.
It's sort of like Thanksgiving with your conservative uncle on steroids, with a live television audience of millions.
Every time he opened a bottle of whiskey, which I'm glad to say was very often, he would take the top off and pour off just a little on the ground, and he would talk to, he would say to Akroma-Ampim, the founder of our line, or Yao Antony, my great uncle, he would talk to them, offer them a little bit of this.
My uncle turned to the other men, and in Arabic said, "Ibn abuh."
These were the men I called ammu, which means uncle.
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