How To Use Extended family In A Sentence

It is an Extended Family Tree - showing all the collateral branches of a family, i.e. all the descendants.
The authority of the father was absolute, as the head of a hierarchy arranged by generation, age and sex, in which every member of the extended family was related in rank to every other.
However, despite these similarities, the political significance of the extended family was not uniform throughout Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
But the most important thing is that he totally blends in with the entire extended family. Times, Sunday Times
Sam instantly dislikes the man and sees him for a worthless, no-good bounder, but Ellen is blinded by her need to be part of an extended family unit.

Where you usually have a nuclear family living together and nobody else, we will often have not just a nuclear family but cousins, aunts, great-aunts, uncles. The extended family lives together, tightly knit.
An extended family tree will grow to include many distant cousins.
But the most important thing is that he totally blends in with the entire extended family. Times, Sunday Times
So she is unable to play with friends or join in the fun with extended family. The Sun
The 23 members of his extended family climbed onto a truck taking onions to market in Peshawar, he said.
To his wife, his daughters, and all his extended family, we tender our sincere sympathy.
Mary Leapor was an only child, but she grew up surrounded by a large extended family.
They and their extended family have no significant relationship with him.
I look forward to introducing it to my kids and extended family.
The four then lived together in an extended family household. Sociology
The extended family's financial embarrassment was closely related to some of their irrational practices which was out of their vanity.
In the American segregated South nannies (called "mammies" or, more commonly, "maids") were passed among the members of an extended family with a casualness surely born of slaveholding traditions. How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement
Friends and extended family, though they may provide much support, can easily spread a cold or flu bug or other infections.
Nuclear families are the main kin group, with relatives involved as kin in the extended family.
You will need to follow the many family businesses for whom embracing non-family executives into the extended family of the firm is a critical success factor.
Such finds are controversial because they undermine a core academic belief about human history: that people prefer cohesive extended family groups. Times, Sunday Times
A family tree or a pedigree is a diagram of the members of your extended family.
The traditional unit is the patrilocal extended family consisting of a married couple, their unmarried daughters, and their sons with their own spouses and children.
Although young people may initiate courtship, marriage is often arranged by the family, with older siblings or extended family members suggesting possible mates.
Thanks to parental and extended family support the children proudly contributed money to their class events.
They might have a party with their nuclear family, one with their extended family, one with their friends and one at school. Times, Sunday Times
And we can no longer rely on the extended family being dose at hand.
New friends partly substitute for an extended family and help with the adjustment to the newborn.
The Maori word "whenua" means land/earth and umbilical cord, and whanau, derived from whenua, means biradri or extended family from common ancestry. Countercurrents.org
I suspect eventually, one of the parents would “give” depending on the weight/value they — and especially extended family — place on the churching. The Volokh Conspiracy » More Discrimination in Child Custody Cases Against the Less Religiously Practicing Parent:
The first programme tonight begins in her home village, where she is greeted like a returning hero by her large extended family. Times, Sunday Times
Overnight, soldiers who had scarcely been aware of each other's existence became part of an extended family. Times, Sunday Times
He was as much a part of the family as everyone else, though he did have a strained relationship with some of the extended family, more of which anon.
I also suspect that while I was collecting an extended family of trolls with differently coloured fluorescent hair, these guys spent their early days making Airfix models of battleships.
He also said the United States President Barack Obama was condemning "the cousins and extended family of his own daughters to be destroyed to preserve the interests of the few".
All of them were remarkable, whether it was headstrong Farzana who brooked no opposition to her determination or whether it was the resolute Shahida who despite her own shaky life became the anchor of her extended family.
I have many in my own extended family who would be said to have long abandoned the practice of their Faith, though sadly what they often abandon is not the Faith in its integrity, but the caricature that was passed on to them. Is Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J., right or wrong...
I'm not returning to the monogamous nuclear family, but rather to the large extended family, which in this form probably never existed.
I have never been one for arguing, mainly because in the context of my extended family there were always plenty of aunts, uncles and cousins willing to take it too far.
Extended family, of sorts, visited today and delivered this lovely little "marmite" made of chocolate that is given at this time of the year in Geneva. 12/02/2007
‘They just want to see me happy,’ they can write about their parents, extended family and community acquaintances, punctuating their e-mail with a smiley-face.
Jackie Manatt created and manages a database that keeps Manatt's ‘extended family’ of Ph.D. students connected and networked.
He said his extended family had been living together in a terraced house in Bradford since 1964 and they now wanted to move out of cramped living conditions and move into a more spacious home where their family could continue to grow.
The pregnant woman in such a community has the support of all the womenfolk in her extended family.
Now the extended family is staging an unexpected revival. Times, Sunday Times
Today, many of his cousins and extended family members are contributing to the Pakistani architecture and urban planning.
Worst, I know from personal experience within my own extended family, there are some who would think this is a jim-dandy notion... RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
You're all my very extended family spanning all continents and all time zones around the world.
He obviously has great love for the apes and monkeys he's known, and his pictures and anecdotes invite the reader to feel, rightly, that primates are members of our own extended family.
Strong extended family ties tend to exercise a restraint on deviant behavior, and family meetings are often called to settle problems before they become public.
For many years I was conscious that I was the first woman in my very large extended family to do this.
The pregnant woman in such a community has the support of all the womenfolk in her extended family.
Pretty and earthy, she can be aggressive or retreat believably, and has some nice scenes with her extended family.
So the city attorney wants him to say goodbye to the animals that have become his extended family?
At this time of year, when we find ourselves in the close company of extended family who may cause that quote to flicker unbidden into our minds, we celebrate the birth of the One who came to save man from himself.
Her parents hope she will reach 7lb soon so they can take her to Ireland to meet her extended family. Times, Sunday Times
Sympathy is extended to his extended family, cousins and friends.
The extended family system has cemented the blood line relationship to an extent that children born of brothers are not called cousins but brothers or sisters.
Like every English person of his time, Shakespeare descended from Catholic antecedents, and like many he numbered recusants among his extended family.
This woman's entire extended family visited for extended periods, crowding the room, and making it noisy and very hot.
Such finds are controversial because they undermine a core academic belief about human history: that people prefer cohesive extended family groups. Times, Sunday Times
And we can no longer rely on the extended family being dose at hand.
New friends partly substitute for an extended family and help with the adjustment to the newborn.
Gerald would have preferred just to shake hands, an old western bond of trust that has pretty much disappeared, but I do not lead a handshake life as my obligations and fealties to heirs, publisher, extended family are many and complex. Bird Cloud
Struggling through clouds of dust and smoke, they hoped to catch other members of their extended family fleeing the attack. Times, Sunday Times
Struggling through clouds of dust and smoke, they hoped to catch other members of their extended family fleeing the attack. Times, Sunday Times
She describes daily life with her extended family, her experiences at school and her mother's piety.
How does this impact the organization of other institutions in society, like church, extended family, civic associations, and ideological movements?
But as society changes, more women are living away from their immediate or extended family, meaning mothers-to-be may not have continuous support throughout their pregnancy.
Its overture is taken up with the analogy between the king of the nation and the father of the nuclear family that is beginning to supersede the extended family of earlier centuries.
These relationships expand from the nuclear to the extended family, and then to the clan, the tribe and ultimately the nation.
The researchers concluded that the supportive atmosphere of the extended family had been sufficient to counterbalance the effects of the questionable diets.
I have a very large (and very close-knit) extended family, so there is a dozen or so kids in the school system at the moment. Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09
The family unit includes godchildren, godparents, and many other members of the extended family.
The pregnant woman in such a community has the support of all the womenfolk in her extended family.
We did not have a big, extended family or a close-knit community to draw on, and I have financed everything myself.
But Bosnian Americans tend to live with extended family members, though this is likely to end as Bosnians acclimate to American culture and become more financially successful.
Ransome-Kuti's sense of social responsibility overrode his apprehension of the social stigma and opprobrium that might affect his extended family.
Dear Refrained: Some extended family get together only at weddings and funerals -- and you stated that the general atmosphere was like a "family reunion. Dispatch.com: RSS
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, who has studied health inequalities and reproductive patterns, points out that healthy life expectancy is short for African Americans and women depend on extended family networks for support. New Scientist - Online News
He has been in the care of the Society and extended family members on his maternal side for different lengths of time.
An extended family zone with shop and cafe are promised this year. Times, Sunday Times
Family life today is likely to be affected by the extended family.
They're a throwback to the cathedral towns of the Middle Ages - part resort, part market place, part town square and part extended family.
He also said the United States President Barack Obama was condemning "the cousins and extended family of his own daughters to be destroyed to preserve the interests of the few".
New friends partly substitute for an extended family and help with the adjustment to the newborn.
So she is unable to play with friends or join in the fun with extended family. The Sun
In gathering information about who lives in the home and who fulfills family roles, it is important to assess for the involvement of extended family and non-blood kin.
The pregnant woman in such a community has the support of all the womenfolk in her extended family.
The memory trick of naming individuals by patronymics, or ‘sloinneadh’ in Gaelic, is the centuries-old system of placing an individual within an extended family system.
An extended family zone with shop and cafe are promised this year. Times, Sunday Times
His early years there were spent in a squat with an extended family of cartoon sociopaths.
An extended family placement has been used, but with minimal investigation of it suitability and minimal support to the carer.
The role of the extended family has been decaying for some time.
Eventually I made it back to the bosom of my extended family, and related my story, expecting uproarious laughter.
Struggling through clouds of dust and smoke, they hoped to catch other members of their extended family fleeing the attack. Times, Sunday Times
Pretty and earthy, she can be aggressive or retreat believably, and has some nice scenes with her extended family.
The parents still believe the children have a close attachment to their natural parents and extended family network.
The price tag equaled the amount of fines that were imposed on Bjni for alleged tax evasion when it was owned by the SIL Concern group of Khachatur Sukiasian and his extended family. «Ազատ Եվրոպա/Ազատություն» ռադիոկայան
The idea of the close-knit extended family is still in people's memory. A Rock and a Hard Place
The city or suburban dwellings of the new class were at first too small to accommodate the extended family.
They drive a taxi to support their extended family, but business is slow, they said, with the Palestinian economy in tatters.
I had a brilliant extended family that included a very generous grand-aunt, uncle and grandparents, who made it their business to regularly rescue me from the jaws of poverty.
Husband and wife are reunited in heaven, along with their extended family.
To all his extended family, relatives, neighbours and friends, we extend our most sincere sympathies.
A child from an extended family may be living across different continents with different cultures and laws.
Explaining our extended family relationship to the children and our spouses was the source of great amusement.
It operated as a non-denominational church attended mostly by my mother's extended family.
She was devoted to her pupils who became her much extended family. Times, Sunday Times
She grew up surrounded by a large extended family.
We're an extended family of two retirees, (abuelos) y nuestra hija y eposo y un nieto bonito, y otro hijo y esposa ... muy cercano. Weekend drinking
Among the most important of these is the central role of the extended family, which is extremely solicitous of the welfare and reputation of its members.
Struggling through clouds of dust and smoke, they hoped to catch other members of their extended family fleeing the attack. Times, Sunday Times
So she is unable to play with friends or join in the fun with extended family. The Sun
The Herons, extended family of Abraham Lincoln, helped administrate the Oklahoma rush. Bear Circuit
The city or suburban dwellings of the new class were at first too small to accommodate the extended family.
Societies retain their tribal structures based on extended family kinships and clientage.
The fun began mid-morning when our extended family began to arrive with food, coolers and lawn furniture.
Our extended family got on the bandwagon, of course, and we all began making inquiries.
I am almost the only person with dark hair in my extended family of rangas.
The men of my extended family were all corporate executives and the women were all homemakers.
** kaumatua = tribal elder; tane = man; hoha = pissed off; whanau = extended family The smallest room and other important cultural matters
Were it not for the support and encouragement from my extended family, I would not be here today.
Such finds are controversial because they undermine a core academic belief about human history: that people prefer cohesive extended family groups. Times, Sunday Times
Twelve members of her extended family have come to Las Vegas to cheer Charli on, and one immediately brands the pageant "cultish" -- for all of its subterranean rules, eager hangers-on, elaborate costumes and strict sequestering of the queens. Ten-gallon tiara: The Miss Rodeo America pageant
In principle, all the descendants of a seventh-generation ancestor are members of one extended family.
He stood quietly near one of the old Coolibah trees in the Pioneers portion of ‘the Hill ‘, a legend and a gentleman, yarning to his many old friends and extended family members.’
Tupua Tamasese Efi said the chiefs and traditional orators - "matai" - of his village had stripped him of the ancient kingly title of "Tui Atua", and banished him along with his extended family. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
Strong extended family ties tend to exercise a restraint on deviant behavior, and family meetings are often called to settle problems before they become public.
As the birds twitter in the winter air at dawn, a burly Iraqi grandmother in black makes bread in an open-air oven for an extended family of 20.
Struggling through clouds of dust and smoke, they hoped to catch other members of their extended family fleeing the attack. Times, Sunday Times
Any or all of these factors will be in Fred West's background but he's not alone in having experienced them; they occur in many people's lives but for the vast majority of them, the wider social experiences of extended family, important friendships, school and their contact with the world are sufficient to compensate for these developmental deficits and to resocialize the growing child. The Jigsaw Man
Nor are grandparents or other extended family members so readily available for nursing duties.
Struggling through clouds of dust and smoke, they hoped to catch other members of their extended family fleeing the attack. Times, Sunday Times
A pervasive myth is that the extended family does not exist and that society is composed of nuclear families cut off from extended kin.
Mai, a forty-year-old school teacher, strives to make a normal life for herself and her children, despite her trauma at having to cope with an errant husband and interfering extended family.
The extended family is highly valued, and it is common for various relatives and generations to live under the same roof.
In African communities, households range from the nuclear family of parents and their children to a multigenerational extended family.
She fought her whole life against the idea that women either had to be married and grace their husband's dinner table or single and exploited by other members of the extended family as helpmates and free nurses.
You cannot beat a few festive chuckles to get you into the mood for spending time with your extended family. The Sun
There to encourage him were all his aunties and their respective partners, his extended family and his little brother Ben, who were all so proud of his radio debut.
Most are the product of one extended family-the Jennings-that has cornered the market on Saturday Night Specials.
So the city attorney wants him to say goodbye to the animals that have become his extended family?
His father owned a fish and chip shop but a colourful extended family also included boxers and music hall artists. Times, Sunday Times
If this was not possible, men sought their brides from the extended family and most marriages were endogamous. Kurdish Women.
The guiltless freedom and profound family security that Maddy and Patrick enjoy speak eloquently for extended family.
For Alisa Lewis, a junior from East St. Louis, Ill., who is majoring in architectural engineering and minoring in math, the HAWK Link students and staff have become like extended family.
The family unit includes godchildren, godparents, and many other members of the extended family.
The aged are cared for, whenever possible, within extended family networks.
Notions of bioregionalism, local economies, village self-governance, and extended family units are parts of our heritage that resonate strongly today as we seek creative ways out of the mess left in the wake of Hurricane Bush. Barack to the Future: It's Electric!
Today, though, the economic unity of the extended family has broken down.
Living with such an extended family can hardly help. Times, Sunday Times
The first programme tonight begins in her home village, where she is greeted like a returning hero by her large extended family. Times, Sunday Times
Her extended family seem to have been involved in various dramas and tragedies. Times, Sunday Times
Until very recently, the main thrust of federal policy was to break up the extended family, the clan structure, to detribalize and assimilate Indian populations.
The pregnant woman in such a community has the support of all the womenfolk in her extended family.
We have in our extended family more than one member who has a psychotic illness.
Neil Abercrombie, who knew Mr. Obama's parents when they were students in Honolulu, says that what the president finds here is not so much privacy but "acceptability" - the protective cocoon that comes with being in the warm embrace of a familiar place, where people regard him as "ohana," Hawaiian for "extended family. NYT > Home Page
This prompted Mavis to explore the reactions of extended family and community when she married interracially.
So we trooped back to the farm where the entire extended family had plonked themselves in the kitchen and were devouring all the leftovers.
There is kin - immediate and extended family - and close behind that, neighbors, members of my social group, people to whom I can turn in need, people like me.
Parents, siblings, and extended family members hurt by past behavior sometimes found forgiveness and acceptance difficult.
The eldest of four, she comes from a 'humungous' extended family. Times, Sunday Times
The pregnant woman in such a community has the support of all the womenfolk in her extended family.
In our extended family, we have defined the "liminal" as the place where two very different states of being meet. They lost our crib in CLT
It was the typical extended family time with grandmother and other visiting relatives.
It also gives support to parents and extended family. The Sun
She fell out with the ungrateful bastards of that particular branch of my mother's extended family, and we didn't visit that bunch this year.
We had a very intellectual little discussion with our extended family last weekend.
The members of an extended family are related by blood (grandparent, parents, children, brothers, sisters, etc.) or by marriage (husbands, wives, mothers-in-law, etc).
Often she works till 10 pm, and then returns home to darn holes in clothing for her extended family.
He saw his extended family on holidays. Times, Sunday Times
Sympathy is also extended to his grandchildren, in-laws and all his extended family land many friends.
The pregnant woman in such a community has the support of all the womenfolk in her extended family.
He refers to communal work where members of the extended family and neighbours assist the family with its work.
Tanzania’s first president implemented the idea of ujamaa, or “familyhood,” which instructs that development should be carried out in villages just as in the home, with everyone contributing to the projects in the society like one big jolly African extended family. Archive 2008-06-01
Extended family and kin are an important part of the social structure of the republic.
Fifi and Manuel steal off for some private time from the watchful eyes of the extended family.
His way of life in a goldfish bowl is what now passes for normality for his wife and her extended family. The Sun
Extended families seldom live together in Britain, but the interaction between members of the extended family is likely to be important.
As part of the investigation into her disappearance police travelled to Bradford to interview members of her extended family, including cousins thought to be of a similar age.
Her extended family is fairly large and tight-knit and very-outwar ... ProLifeBlogs
This is the time for the extended family to come together, to pay its respects to the dons and capos, and a time for people who want to be associated with the family to come and be introduced.
The researchers concluded that the supportive atmosphere of the extended family had been sufficient to counterbalance the effects of the questionable diets.
Among the indigenous majority, marriage is ideally polygynous and patrilocal, with the bride moving to her husband's compound to live with his extended family.
His way of life in a goldfish bowl is what now passes for normality for his wife and her extended family. The Sun
Living away from each other, the extended family has been blown apart.
The city or suburban dwellings of the new class were at first too small to accommodate the extended family.
Is he not supposed to be a patriarch to his extended family?

How To Use Extended family In A Sentence

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