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    aunt example sentences

    aunt


    1. marked the boundary of Aunt Billie’s little estate


    2. Aunt Billie was an interesting old bat


    3. His mother and Aunt Billie had kept in reasonably close contact for the twenty


    4. Aunt Billie, unfortunately, struggled when it came to men, and now she was


    5. an opportunity to do both him and his aged aunt a mutual favour


    6. Aunt Billie looked at him for a long moment and then snorted


    7. Enjoying the momentary discomfiture of her reluctantly invited guest, Aunt


    8. Aunt Peg died a year or so after Dad


    9. Aunt Billie cut him off immediately


    10. choice between spending an evening with Mary or Aunt Billie was not a hard one to

    11. By a mixture of lamp and torch light Aunt Billie then conducted him around the seven


    12. completed he and his aunt settled down with yet another large one


    13. “Yes”, Aunt Billie said wistfully, “and your mother


    14. alcohol and Aunt Billie


    15. What Johnny needed was another one of Aunt Billie’s singular malts


    16. of advice that his aunt and his dancing love had given him; “Don’t get out of bed”


    17. Aunt Billie, having unlocked the door, placed a cup of freshly brewed Earl Gray on


    18. Once Aunt Billie was out of the room, Johnny slowly ran his hands over his


    19. Aunt Billie patted his hand again and said, “They’re just dreams, that’s all


    20. Well, Jacqui is her aunt

    21. The spectre of death already lingers in the rooms of the house, yet neurotic aunt Despina moves around with a liveliness I have never seen on her before


    22. I occasionally meet Mandy (aunt Hermione's extremely boring niece: the only thing she does is answer ''yes'' or ''no'' to my questions), Lena (an incredibly dull, married hen: I visit her once a week, and as soon as I get there she starts helping her sons with their homework; she won't stop until I leave) or Persephone (rather depressed, yet she is the only one with whom I have something to discuss)


    23. She has been in Athens for four years, she lives with an aunt of hers but she isn't pleased and she wants to change address


    24. Once Aunt Billie was out of the room, Johnny slowly ran his hands over his neck and then, as best he could, down his back


    25. ‘Yes, I’m his aunt by marriage


    26. ‘So you’re my aunt


    27. Perhaps JJ would want her around as a sort of honorary aunt … or would that be too weird? As if she were clinging to a facsimile of the man she loved? No, maybe it would be best not to hang around … for the first time she felt the rootlessness of her existence


    28. Angie is determined that little Karalintze will know all about her famous Great Aunt as she gets bigger


    29. He was a popular Greek musician and my aunt was a dancer from Liverpool


    30. Anyway, I suppose associations like that only served to make him more attractive to my aunt

    31. Not ever knowing either parent, I have to say I didn't miss them and then my aunt and uncle used to come to Cornwall for my holidays


    32. My aunt and uncle began chatting about the crazy obsession the surfers share for beach life and I knew it wouldn't be long before he'd start hinting that it was about time I learned to swim, even though we had long ago agreed that I would only go with them to a beach as long as I didn't have to go in the sea, which I never did because I hated the water, the salt and the cold, and also I hated being so thin


    33. But uncle was very persuasive, so after nods from my aunt, we went and stood at the water's edge with the icy wetness licking my toes, and my arms clutching my body against the spray, and to hide my embarrassment


    34. The next thing I remember was being swept up into the arms of my aunt and being carried onto the sand where she wrapped me in a towel and rubbed me dry


    35. 'I have to meet my aunt there


    36. In a bare lime-washed yard behind the house, I found my aunt dressed in dismal black


    37. My dear aunt, so wretched and forlorn, so defeated in her grief, I dared not make a sound


    38. My aunt paused on the threshold then pushed the door ajar, guiding me inside, 'Welcome to our love nest


    39. My aunt might not even have been interested, after all she had her career, but they stood by me


    40. My aunt bore it all as best she could but in the moment she dropped some soil onto the lid, she sank to her knees beside the shallow grave and buried her face in her hands, trembling and shaking, overwhelmed with grief

    41. She looked at my aunt before she spoke


    42. My aunt was guiding us out of the wind, taking us somewhere special, this was no random meander


    43. Could it be my foxy old aunt had cornered me into a decision? But just as I was about to put her off, she floored me with a question, 'So why don't you consider moving here?'


    44. My aunt stood her ground and levelled with one of them as he was lighting a cigarette, 'Excuse me


    45. It reminded me of infant school formalities, and that memory took me home for a second and I imagined my aunt arriving at our cottage and how it would be empty


    46. I'm going to ask my aunt if she will keep the house


    47. You're fond of your aunt, aren't you?'


    48. ‘They were completely out of water, Aunt Sally, when I put their water bottle back, they went crackers drinking


    49. Irene Valeska stepped into the yard and I knew by her warmth that she would take care of my aunt, 'I'll be there for her


    50. ‘We had a brill tutorial, Aunt Sally














































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    Synonyms for "aunt"

    aunt auntie aunty

    "aunt" definitions

    the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle