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father-in-law

[ US /ˈfɑðɝɪnˌɫɔ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the father of your spouse

How To Use father-in-law In A Sentence

  • Within four minutes he has worked out that he bought a painting from my father-in-law in the early 1970s. Times, Sunday Times
  • I have a wife, a son, a sister, a sister-in-law, three brothers-in-law, a mother, a father-in-law, a nephew, and a niece.
  • Your father-in-law should instruct a solicitor to obtain these. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was bobbing along in my father-in-law's small yacht with my wife and small baby when we were attacked by a jet-skier who raced at us at high speed before turning sharply, sending a wall of water over us in the boat.
  • V. -- Your own fortune, father-in-law (in certain kinds of society they say _papa father-in-law_) yielding an income of twenty thousand, and which will soon be increased by an inheritance. Analytical Studies
  • MY elderly father-in-law changed energy supplier in December and went from using electric storage radiators to gas central heating. The Sun
  • His home in these early years was a private island in Narragansett Bay, bought with help from his then father-in-law. Extracurricular Activities
  • He didn't represent me, but he represented my father-in-law, Peter Burroughs.
  • It came up for sale in the mid-1960s at a knock-down price of £4,000 and her father-in-law bought it, thinking Julie would be the perfect person to put in charge.
  • Mr. Sackett was at Arlington National Cemetery interring his father-in-law when he got the call. A Sewage Blunder Earns Engineer a Criminal Record
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