How To Use Daughter In A Sentence

As a postscript to the story, my great grandfather died a few weeks after this conversation, proving, as his wife pointed out to her daughter, that she had been correct in her surmise.
Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
She would have taken a great deal of trouble that her daughters might not be a flounce behind the fashions, and was so far-seeing in her motherly anxieties, that she junketed herself and Major Buller to many an entertainment, where they were bored for their pains, that the extensive acquaintance might ensure to the girls partners, both for balls and for life when they came to require them. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
I shall be glad when the last of my daughters is married off.
The King looked at him and seeing him to be yet comelier than his daughter and goodlier than she in stature and proportion and brightness and perfection, said to him, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

It wasn't just the obvious favouritism towards their own daughter that ticked him off either, that wasn't even the beginning of it.
In town for the competition is Phil's arch rival and inveterate cheat Ray and his lovely American daughter Christina.
She is also survived by her sons, daughters and sister-in-law.
I was talking to a mom today whose daughter's elementary teacher said she was afraid that her daughter had "selective mutism. Canard - French Word-A-Day
It freewheeled down the hill and collided with the car in which Mrs Reilly and her daughter were travelling.
I am sure his daughter in ice-bound Toronto appreciates a diary that provides useful information like when Vesak Day is.
Your daughter may indeed welcome your new friend but tread carefully. The Sun
At lunch, Monsieur Caïn and his wife, who epitomize the nouveau bourgeoisie, continue to berate their daughter for what they see as appalling manners and lack of respect.
They understood, as his son-in-law and daughter fled with their son from the city.
He craned his neck to look for his daughter in the crowd.
The deep grief and guilt of the mother as well as the hatred and home-sickness of the daughter permeate the story and eventually melt away due to the abiding family love.
The warnings that permeate Polonius's speeches derive from his misperception of controlling his daughter's sexuality.
And when they espied the dukes daughter, that was a full fair woman, then by their false covin they made debate betwixt themself, and the duke of his goodness would have departed them, and there they slew him and his eldest son. Chapter XV. The Thirteenth Book. How Sir Galahad Fought with the Knights of the Castle, and Destroyed the Wicked Custom
How many fathers would drive their daughter 120 miles through mountainous terrain so she could attend weekly ballet and singing lessons?
Lisa has two daughters, 12 and 16, and works as an administrative assistant in a bank.
My little daughter started jumping up and down with rage when she heard she couldn't go.
He hath a daughter too, who once sought to mar our trade with her gittern; a daughter, then in a kirtle that I would not have nimmed from a hedge, but whom I last saw in sarcenet and lawn, with The Last of the Barons — Complete
Even men who marry commoners are struggling to afford lobola, which has increased with the expectations of parents whose daughters are marrying into the mushrooming black middle class.
A woman saved the life of her baby granddaughter only days after learning life-saving skills following a crash course in first aid at her local pub.
A hard-nosed unmoveable man, who sacrifices his lovely daughter to ward off future kidnap threats on his beloved son.
I asked my daughter-in-law if there was anything special we needed to stock up on and she revealed she's been craving mandarin oranges for the last three weeks.
In her studio in the loft at the top of the house, half-completed oil paintings sit alongside crayon masterpieces by her daughter.
That was an independent province until Duke Francis died, leaving his daughter Anne as his only heir.
My daughter fixed the ceremony with the Vicar some weeks ago and we have arranged a baptismal party. GOODBYE CURATE
My daughter points a pencil with a knife.
My daughter and husband bicker constantly - should I take his side and risk spoiling my relationship with her? Times, Sunday Times
What is news is that from the very beginning, biggety ivory-tower academics have labored to recruit into their ranks the sons and daughters of the powerful, famous, and rich. [Help] Most Recent Posts
Your daughter must fill in an appeals 'proforma' within 21 days. Times, Sunday Times
The relationship with her mother, Zippora, née Assur, the daughter of a prosperous merchant family, who had never attended school, became more and more difficult. Fanny Lewald.
He is also the loving father of an infant daughter. The Times Literary Supplement
This way the bad guys will breakin to your home rob, rape your wives, daughters, rob your home, carjack you, and all other crimes they can commit against you knowing you can not defend yourself. Senate rejects concealed weapons bill
My largest contributor was my friend Anne Bartley, Governor Winthrop Rockefellers stepdaughter, who later ran the Arkansas office in Washington, D.C., when I was governor.
Leopards are not the only mammals in which daughters live close to their mothers.
Many of the pictures and symbols were helpful to the Democrats 'cause: a family that clearly was from the real America -- Wallace and Bobby, his parents; a wife, Elizabeth, who looks like the kind of unpretentious person who doesn't mind celebrating her anniversary at Wendy's; a demure daughter and two towheaded tots. Digital Dispatches
The enveloped sporogony is endogenous in spore sacs of sporont origin, daughter cells are formed by vacuolation.
The ci-devant banker, then a widower with an only daughter, Esther, had journeyed to England.
James went to his daughter and hugged her tightly.
This induced those airs, and a love to those diversions, which make a young widow, of so lively a turn, the unfittest tutoress in the world, even to her own daughter. Clarissa Harlowe
He consoled himself that Emmanuel looked like a nice boy, who could be a good playmate for his daughter.
Abbey was snapped in a pair of skin-tight jeans just ten days after her daughter was born. The Sun
Behind our chalet, which my daughter christened the Magic House, rose our very own mountain, at least 50 metres high.
Yes, he disowns his mother and his wife attempted suicide as a result of being publicly slandered by him, but we also know how much he cares about his daughter.
One of our daughters might one day want to take out a mortgage of her own and buy it from us outright, or as a parents-financed ‘shared equity’ scheme.
Some species consist only of females that produce their daughters from unfertilized eggs, a type of reproduction called parthenogenesis.
Her daughter conducted a salon that became a gathering place for the writers, artists, and musicians of the Harlem Renaissance.
This ring has been passed on in my family from mother to daughter.
Another daughter, Elizabeth, died of fever at age two in 1764 and was buried in the Negro cemetery alongside Nina.
Susan is daughter of Vinny and Kitty O'Connor and she is departmental manager at Penny's.
This "quidam," as she called him -- for his name was beneath the cognizance of an Emperor's bastard daughter -- had by her orders received rigorous and exemplary justice. PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
“Darling, while you were out becoming one with the llamas, your brown-nosing protégé was quite busy undermining your daughter.” I.O.U.
Probably because he has been driven into deicidal madness after Ares tricks Kratos into killing his own wife and daughter. The Cultural Gutter
The woman, who lives in the west Clacton area, lost her 6-month-old daughter to cot death.
I was made redundant and now have to rely on my daughter financially. The Sun
A neighbor's daughter sat with the children.
It was into this lawless milieu that Devi was born, the second daughter of a low-caste illiterate farmer.
Shiites of this branch believed that the Prophet Muhammad's successors or vicars were his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, and the eleven lineal descendants of Ali and the Prophet's daughter, Fatima.
As anyone with a son or daughter working for a City investment bank will tell you, the salaries and annual bonuses that go with such deals are mouth-watering.
Based on a Korean fairy-tale, this light and witty piece of chinoiserie tells the story of a Mandarin's daughter who is engaged to a rich Ambassador but loves an impoverished youth.
There have been a few teething problems, sorted out by a computer whiz-kid friend of my husband and - embarrassingly - my eight-year-old daughter.
There stood our granddaughter, and in her gray-green eyes and impudent grin I saw the reflection of our Christmas Boy.
I am [3] the daughter of Menœceus, and Creon my brother was born of the same mother; me they call Jocasta (for this name [4] my father gave me), and The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
She currently resides in Virginia with her husband, daughter, and a mighty clowder of cats.
It's all well and good for some to say that it's wrong for children to be advised to hit back, but I'm afraid I'd rather my son or daughter protected themselves against a pasting from a bully rather than wait for a teacher to come to their aid. Crib sheet 19.10.10
A light-heeled mother makes a heavy-heeled daughter.
When they finally found the daughter, the wife and grandparents refused to let her go to visit her dying father.
She had given up all hope of tracing her missing daughter.
She plays Themba's daughter who returns from exile to learn the unpalatable truth about her father.
The contrast between runaways and filial daughters in family composition and financial conditions indicates a likelihood that the girls' motives for entering prostitution varied according to family conditions.
An egomaniacal celebrity author lives in Paris with his glamorous young second wife and his shy and unhappy grown-up daughter from his first marriage.
Mythological characters that can be found on the periodic table include Tantalus (Tantalum, Ta) and his daughter Niobe (Niobium, Nb), and Promethius (Promethium, Pm).
The mother, Chris Hempel, of Reno, Nev., says she wrote in the email that her daughters were being treated with cyclodextrin on an experimental basis. Surprising New Uses for Older Drugs; HIV Vaccine?
Funny how having daughters turns you into an old-fashioned, overprotective prude.
Chromosomes are visible only during cell division, when the DNA is supercoiled and condensed to facilitate distribution into daughter cells.
From the sounds downstairs, my mother was trying to recover from last night's hangover and put on a decent dress for her daughters' weddings.
When the cell divides, the corrupt protein is contained in both daughter cells, where it seeds the process again.
She and Alpheus would also have a daughter before their divorce a few years later. Neighbors: Loughner's parents strange, but caring for son
Is it because filial daughters are more bound to filial ideology than runaways?
She said: ‘I was panicking, fretting, crying and pleading with him to give me back my daughter.’
McCain makes the Bush daughters look demure, which is a shame: we had so much hope for them taking over their father's mantle, but McCain looks like she will be fun too. Paul Jenkins: Republican Circus: Extended Engagement
She begs Jesus to heal her daughter, but it sounds as if he doesn't have time for her.
She gave her daughter a reproachful glance.
Pearl, her daughters, and two elderly amahs occupied the top floor. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
She wants to marry her daughter to that rich man.
I redeemed my promise to my daughter by sending her a gift on her birthday.
In her current incarnation she is a demigoddess, the daughter of Zeus and Queen Hippolyta.
Chuck was happy that his daughter was smart enough to jump a grade, but at the same time, it disturbed him. She was growing up so fast.
The same yeare, Matthew sonne to the earle of Flanders married the ladie Marie the abbesse of Ramsie, daughter to king Stephan, and with hir had the countie of Bullongne. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
Perhaps if my unit had been able to capture that bomber on that fateful night, Dr. Appelbaum would have walked his daughter to the chuppa.
She was plain-featured, and had rather a severe expression on her face; her dress was as rich as any morning dress could be; her voice deep and unmodulated, -- what in a lower rank of life would have been called gruff; but that was not a word to apply to Lady Cuxhaven, the eldest daughter of the earl and countess. Wives and Daughters
Selena was more than mad at her daughter; she was furious.
_Mary Bosvile_, the second daughter and coheir, married Richard Burdett, of Derby, living Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850
La jeune fille is expected to remember that she is a daughter and owes reverence to her parents. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
I have a beautiful, wonderful, firecracker of a daughter.
It is quite possible that his only truly shameful act was his abandonment of his daughter and her mother, not to mention his mendacious behaviour toward my mother.
Her daughter immediately commands her mother not to give the flower girl any money.
Their conjugal affection still is ty'd,And still the mournful race is multiply'd:They bill, they tread; Alcyone compress'd,Sev'n days sits brooding on her floating nest:A wintry queen: her sire at length is kind,Calms ev'ry storm, and hushes ev'ry wind;Prepares his empire for his daughter's ease,And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas. Mystery bird: Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata
Vassili roared in Fon and the daughter came in with a beaker of thin yoghurt which he poured down Selina's throat. BLOOD IS DIRT
The couple had been married for 40 years after meeting as teenagers and had two grown-up daughters and a grandson.
The lady of the house had no difficulty in partnering off her beautiful daughter for the evening with a smart young man.
She was the virgin poetess dressed in white, the tremulous daughter who never left her father's house, the maiden who turned to art because she was thwarted in love.
I had a momentary image - very clear, very politically incorrect, and very likely brought on by Pam's mention of the cartoon books I'd once drawn for a little sick girl - of a large talking skunk in a beret, Monsieur PepÃ© Le Pew, strutting around my daughter's pension (if that was the word for a bedsitter-type apartment in Paris) with wavy aroma lines rising from his white-striped back. Duma Key
Cordelia Carroll had pride, one daughter, and the desire to see the Hereford Carrolls retain some parity with the Charolais Dales.
Instead they put it in the trust of their three daughters equally. Times, Sunday Times
Happy Belated I was about to type in 'bleated' which actually would suit for the daughter of a goat judge, wouldn't it? Once in a Blue Moon
They listened, with eager attention, to the complaints of their captive children, who had suffered the most cruel indignities from the lustful or angry passions of their masters, and the same cruelties, the same indignities, were severely retaliated on the sons and daughters of the The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The name Berenice or Beronice, borne by more than one daughter of the On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
Still, like a chip off the old block, I worried my two daughters right through college.
She was idealized as a martyr's daughter and a symbol of Palestine.
He wants to marry off his daughter to his partner's son.
In this little cottage lived an old basketmaker named Janiculo, with his only daughter Griselda, the child of his old age. The Children's Portion
Le larron does not seem to be used in conversational French (my daughter taught me the word after she learned it in her French class while reading a classic text) ... so here are some useful synonyms: un escroc (swindler, con man, crook) un malfaiteur (burglar) un voleur (thief) French Word-A-Day:
Seek ye then, fair daughters, the possession of that inward grace, whose essence shall permeate and vitalize the affections, adorn the countenance, make mellifluous the voice, and impart a hallowed beauty even to your motions. Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
Mrs. Brown was anxious to marry off her five daughters.
That she blames Bliss is clear from her calling her older daughter a "worthless miscreation".
You need to be united in addressing your younger daughter's behaviour. The Sun
My son is my son till he hath got him a wife; but my daughter’s my daughter all the days of her life.
This is the first official biography of her and it is introduced by her daughter.
Third, James Stuart, major-general, and colonel of the thirl j-- first regiment of foot, married Lady Margaret Hume, daughter of Hugh,. Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
Us married just five months, and her the nicest girl living, and you keeping us flat broke all the time, you damned old thief, so you can put money away for your saphead of a son and your wishywashy fool of a daughter! Babbit
She headed out into the high street, glad to be rid of this daughterly duty. SURE OF YOU
His sister Tamara is a close friend of mine, and I am the godmother to her daughter, I have a great relationship with all of the Castagnolas.
Charles rushes to his daughter's bedroom and expertly jabs her with the insulin syringe.
To Rich, his brother suddenly appeared as some benign leader, the merciful father taking his excitable daughters on holiday.
I wrote a letter regarding my daughter's school examinations.
[Page 67] * This accomplished comment to human nature was the widow of the late Willoughby lord Middleton of Woolaton in Nottinghamshire, and wife of Edward Miller Mundy, Esq. of Shipley in the county of Derby, by whom her ladyship had one daughter now living. Poems, by Mrs. M. Robinson
But he was built of loyalty and unsuspicion; and though for a mere second a fear assailed him that the old lady was about to charge Reuben with playing his daughter false, he scouted the fancy hotly. Aunt Rachel
She was proud that her daughter had so much talent.
Sarah Sallee, the strawberry-blond daughter of Mrs. Phelps, the sixth grade teacher at Garrett Elementary, was a lofty and unattained love of mine. The Impossible Division by Zero
Ministers will be put under pressure to scrap the law that bans the eldest daughter of a British monarch from becoming queen if she has a brother.
Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can.
There are fathers and mothers who urge their daughters to make haste to occupy every coigne of vantage, and gradually advance into the heart of the enemy's country. Girls and Women
My daughter started on Barbie when she was younger and while barbie is a little more normal than Bratz I still didn’t like it. The Good, The Bad, and The Bratz | Her Bad Mother
I have 11 grandsons and five granddaughters and now I have my first great-granddaughter.
Another daughter, Elizabeth, died of fever at age two in 1764 and was buried in the Negro cemetery alongside Nina.
Another of Mia's children, 14-year-old Moses, repeated allegations that Allen had sexually abused his seven-year-old adopted daughter Dylan.
She revealed she only recently learned the alphabet as she had to home-school her three-year-old daughter. The Sun
Emily Travis was dainty and delicate and rare, and whether in London or Klondike she gowned herself as befitted the daughter of a millionnaire mining engineer. THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN
Operating a cash-poor shamus practice in Edinburgh, occasionally bringing along his precocious daughter from a broken marriage, Brodie is clearly more of a doer than a brooder. Matt's Guide to Weekend TV: Walking Dead, Case Histories and More!
For British women pregnant with a daughter, the cost, pain and terror of a late term backstreet abortion in India await Home | Mail Online
A mere chit of a girl, the daughter of her maid servant, who was wearing her daughters’ hand me downs had the audacity to talk back?
Gay shopped plant sales, propagated her own stock and taught her daughter how to take cuttings.
Her mother, Jackiey, the daughter of a market trader, was described in her daughter's autobiography as a petty thief and "clipper" - a woman who pretends to be a prostitute but runs off with the money instead. DUFF & NONSENSE!
When her snooty daughter visits, she is embarrassed by her relative poverty.
All those mothers now giving birth at the age of 45 or more should hope that their daughters don't follow their example.
There once was/lived a poor widow who had a beautiful daughter.
Mrs. Brown was anxious to marry off her five daughters.
Where were her motherly instincts to love and protect her young daughter? The Sun
Jill plays his fetching daughter in charge of passing the collection plate.
Well, it seems I have adapted my daughter's favored method of coping.
His 12-year-old daughter Cindy called Makeba "an inspiration. Macleans.ca
In order to protect her, my grandmother killed her daughter off.
Now her daughter is carrying the flame. Times, Sunday Times
The daughters of an insurance investigator, they lived in a smart area close to the cathedral.
But his son and daughter and two stepsons, the youngest of the children being 22 and oldest 28, have all flown the nest.
He walked out as matter-of-coursely as if he had dropped in to ask the meaning of "circumflex," or who invented smallpox, or the name of Adam's house-cat, or how long it would take her to do a graduation essay for his daughter -- or any such little things that librarians are prepared for most days. The Rose-Garden Husband
He started his daughter up in the trade.
The nine Muses called Pierides in Grecian Mythology were the daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne (Memory), supposed to preside over the liberal A History of Pantomime
Now, if that cell was then to divide, the fluorescence would be halved in the daughter cells.
Then he hammered together a photo frame for his daughter.
a male secretary/nurse/model or a woman/female doctor/barrister/driver. However this is now not usually used unless you need to emphasize which sex the person is, or it is still unusual for the job to be done by a man/woman:My daughter prefers to see a woman doctor.
A comedy about becoming fully conscious, AND SOPHIE COMES TOO follows the three Abramowitz sisters and their mother Sophie, who may or may not wake from a coma before her daughters take control of their increasingly chaotic lives: Barbara, a single lesbian, doesn't want her wacky family's calamity to interfere with her sex life or the pending adoption of a baby girl from China. BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
He invites one to a sleepover with his daughter. The Sun
He calls her by a kind of zeugma "your daughter," though she is but Jacob's daughter; however, all have the disposal of her in hand. Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
Mr Woodcock's wife Mandy and 18-month-old daughter Maisie were only yards away when he was abused and "mooned" at by young yobs after he went to confront them. Evening Mail news round-up
From the distracted and despairing man whom love and longing trepan from the lover under passion’s ban the prisoner of transport and distraction from this Kamar al-Zaman son of Shahriman to the peerless one of the fair Houris the pearl-union to the Lady Budur daughter of King Al Ghayur The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
A couple in XL (not lardy just well formed) plus a long sleeve if you go to this; one in L for the lad and three in S/M for the wife and daughters. Been There, Done That, Got The T-Shirt! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Sarah turned away to the oven where the casserole was cooking, aware of her daughter's accusatory stare at her back. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
I was sitting on the sofa with a man I was dating whom my daughter was quite fond of.
After being stunned by the spring flowers she saw in the park while she was pregnant, she decided to call her daughter Bluebell.
He goes to Bath, where Sir Walter is now established with his two elder daughters and Elizabeth's companion Mrs Clay, an artful woman with matrimonial designs on Sir Walter.
The 28-year-old daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent is volunteering in the slum, or favela, of Complexo da Maré in Rio de Janeiro, which is the scene of frequent gun battles between police and drugs gangs. Home | Mail Online
August 25th, 2009 10: 04 am ET you and your dingbat daughter pleasse go back under the rock where you both cohabitate. Cheney takes swipe at Obama over prosecutor
It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well.
The suspicions of her daughter led police back on the trail of the evil doctor and the will became the first concrete piece of evidence against him.
Now, she lives there with her son, husband, three stepchildren and 18-month-old daughter.
In the majority of our traditions, it is common to see parents encourage their young daughters to abandon school and get married at ages which are prohibited by law.
Some of the children of Israel had begun to stray after the daughters of Moav and to worship their idols.
Gayle's mother said I was a bad influence on her daughter.
‘We all had it,’ she says, sitting on a rug in front of her mud hut while her granddaughter mauls a stalk of sugarcane.
A Gentleman refers to Cordelia in eremite terms: she "redeems inlet from a ubiquitous curse" of sinfulness so dramatically demonstrated in Lear's elder daughters. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
The widespread ambivalence over whether the sons and daughters of Egyptian women married to foreign men should be allowed Egyptian citizenship assumed many dimensions.
His father was Louis VIII, of the Capet line, and his mother was the redoubtable Queen Blanche, daughter of King Alfonso of Castile and Eleanor of England. SAINT LOUIS, CONFESSOR, KING OF FRANCE
A source said: 'One rich daddy got in touch saying he wanted to buy it for his daughter. The Sun
French departee, wonder how he calculated the expenses of a holidayer and now we have his daughter the 35 Hour week champion. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
I was afraid I would lose my daughter in the crush of human bodies.
Underwood - a superannuated widower - has two daughters.
I had been invited to sing in a church choir by my friend, the organist's daughter.
The mother, who was pregnant, and her daughter were taken to a safe area of the rainforest and released. Times, Sunday Times
And she called the undefiled daughters of the Hebrews, and they led (attended her). Word from the Desert
My daughter 's fiancé tried to restrain her and she mouthed off at him. The Sun
The newly married couple was very happy, although many people warned the kindly man about the willful and headstrong nature of his new step-daughter.
He is proud of his daughter's ability to speak four languages.
A man who lost his daughter eight years previously feels drawn to help a teenage runaway. Times, Sunday Times
Your daughter tried very hard to get back the money from her landlord but he proved to be an incredibly slippery character. Times, Sunday Times
Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you .

How To Use Daughter In A Sentence

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