How To Use Father In A Sentence

He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
In Bermuda, Sam's father took him on an excursion to a coral barrier.
My stepfather was strict and didn't let us have friends in the house; he physically abused me but not sexually.
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.

These deals are large and complex, requiring a lot more than just a "consigliere" -- a term always used with "The Godfather" playing in the background -- sitting in a dark room plotting with a CEO. Robert Teitelman: Svengalis, Bankers and the Role of Intermediaries
I have a lot of my father in me and I am as stubborn as a mule. Times, Sunday Times
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
His mother and father thought Jim was a bit of an oddball too.
Now comes the news that her shifty lawyer father has only 48 hours to raise a lot of money or face financial ruin and imprisonment.
Or did her pushy mother and absent father turn her life into a sordid soap opera? Times, Sunday Times
Well, my boy Joey is eight years old, and he's a foul-mouthed dumb-ass little loser just like his father.
He is my cousin or rather my 'father's cousin.
I still see Mr. Berman's portable shtender in the shul and I have to smile because I immediately see his warm gentle smile and think about how fortunate I was to have met your father.
The film also stars Jared Leto as Alexander's special boyhood chum, Rosario Dawson as his sex-starved wife, Angelina Jolie as his nagging mother and Val Kilmer as his abusive father.
None of the fathers' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment.
Does a father react angrily when his tired, overwhelmed twelve-month-old flails out and hits him on the nose?
Following the example set by her father, she has fulfilled her role and done her duty.
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Miles, the more successful, exaggerated the decorative qualities of his father's style to the point of mannerism.
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.
One of these gentlemen just happens to be the madwoman's father, a charming chap who seems unfazed by most things in this day and age.
My grandfather was eighty when he died and was gathered to his fathers.
A favorite uncle provided pointers on pugilistic defenses against bullies - namely her father, who was the first regular bully in her life.
Still Life with Action Figure," a particularly realist exercise, actually occurs in suburbia, where an artist son visits his artist father, who has resumed painting despite suffering from parkinsonism. Ccfinlay: You Make My Heart Sing
From the father comes honour; from the mother, comfort.
Her father provided a motivation in her not only to succeed but to triumph. Times, Sunday Times
In the closet scene, Hamlet mistook her father for the king, and he fatally stabbed him.
He sat there passively, content to wait for his father to make the opening move.
The only time it was ever used was when my father had important people dining with him for business.
McCoy had fully embraced the idea of belated fatherhood his declarations to the contrary notwithstanding. The Better Man
A 15-year-old boy was killed in front of his father and brother when a speeding stolen car ploughed into him on a pedestrian crossing.
Named Tecumseh after the Shawnee leader, he was rechristened William in a Catholic ceremony at age 9, after he was informally adopted by a prominent Ohio politician when his father died.
It never occurred to me that you might not realize he was your father or grandfather, or great grandsire or whatever.
How many fathers would drive their daughter 120 miles through mountainous terrain so she could attend weekly ballet and singing lessons?
Her father used to orchestrate proofs about evil as a way of persuading his flock to convert. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
He's a very conservative dresser - he always looks like he's wearing his father's clothes!
“Your father makes a great martini, d'you know that son-of-general?” Happy Landings
His grand-sounding name 'Tintoretto' means nothing but 'the little dyer,' and it was given to him because of his father's trade. Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters
Now Tyndareus bestowed me on thy father not that I or any children I might bear should be slain. Electra
Pat came from a working-class Catholic family in Denver, where her father had worked as an electrician.
They tell me that his father was made what they call a baronet because he set a broken arm for one of those twenty royal dukes that England has to pay for. The Fixed Period
She curled her hair into soft waves and put on the white gold earrings her father had given her.
Those qualities were instead projected on to a father he had barely known and a figure he invented in fiction. Times, Sunday Times
Between them, father and son have carved out a place where the song, the voice and the delivery of a real and recognisable emotion are paramount. Times, Sunday Times
The artist takes as his viewpoint the vista from Gun Hill, high above the gentle Suffolk vale, looking down towards the Stour valley, Dedham church and the watermill where his father worked.
he won't step into his father's footsteps
Father eventually married her and she became my step-mother.
Apparently some creature called a kobold escaped from wherever my grandfather trapped it, and it has teamed up with Milo. Master of Mirrors
She hears nothing but the breeze rustling the curtains of her bedroom window, and the angry blare of the television coming from her father's bedroom.
According to the pamphlet issued to midwives, fathers often feel like 'the invisible parent ... uninformed and unwelcomed'. Times, Sunday Times
The bear is called grandfather by many peoples and the tiger is alluded to as the striped one. Exploring language (6th edn)
His father was a hairdresser and beautician, his mother an astrologer and former dancer who also acted as a promoter for women's wrestling. Times, Sunday Times
His maternal grandfather, for example, would probably be called something completely different. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Father exploded a bombshell when he forbade us to go to the prom
Time is the father of truth.
Fancy an heir that a father had seen born well-featured and fair, turning suddenly wry-nosed, club-footed, squint-eyed, hair-lipped, wapper-jawed, carrot-haired, from a pride become an aversion, -- my case was yet worse. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
So how, precisely, do I find myself the father of a teenage owner of one 5-year-old, skewbald, equine quadruped, about 13 hands tall, who answers, rather inattentively, to the name Buttons? Finding the Next Winner
For those who don't know about Shannon, he was the father of information theory, which in its simplest form means he made possible the leap from telephones and telegraphs to computers.
He has been called everything from Fenty's godfather to 'consigliere' to 'vice mayor,' a gibe that he is the Richard B. Cheney to Fenty's George W. Bush. DeMorning DeBonis: Sept. 10, 2010
Obj. 2: Further, filiation, which is said of a man as being the son of someone, his father or his mother, depends, in a way, on him: because the very being of a relation consists _in being referred to another; _ wherefore if one of two relatives be destroyed, the other is destroyed also. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
It is wise father that knows his own child.
The father then undertakes his own pilgrimage along the same route. Times, Sunday Times
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. Abraham Lincoln
Roy Bourgeois made the front page of this past Saturday's New York Times, and I was glad for the good news at hand: 157 priests signed a statement in support of Father Roy Bourgeois, whom the Vatican has begun to defrock. Michele Somerville: A Frock Does Not A Priest Make
Christine returned to Dawson Fold to help her father manage the farm and run the shop.
Take a look at her age verses the care of the kids, would Michael risk his life risk his kids being devastated in loosing him as father …. the kids and family he always wanted, you have to wonder would he risk his life to drugs. The Post-Mortem Legal Battles of Michael Jackson : Law is Cool
In 1934 he moved to Vancouver with his mother and stepfather. Times, Sunday Times
At the beginning, Asked For is in Venice with her father, where she meets an ageing Jacob to use the English version of his name Casanova; her father dies, and she begins to travel with the man who fascinates her. Susan Swan: What Casanova Told Me
Said boy was taken up by Thomas Walton, and says _he was free_, and that his parents live near Shawneetown, Illinois, and that he was _taken_ from that place in July 1836; says his father's name is William, and his mother's Sally Brown, and that they moved from Fredericksburg, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
‘Oh, I think the music's great,’ responded our darling son in a replay, no doubt, of father-son conversations taking place all over the world.
The document was put together in September of 2000 by The Project for the New American Century, a conservative think-tank fathered by Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard.
In a way, you could say this thrill seeker is also following his father's adventuresome footsteps - his dad once maneuvered a motor boat from Venezuela to Miami.
Next year his father will retire and take things easy.
The thrust of the campaign is to ensure that coming generations too experience Sabarimala just like their forefathers did.
Both father and son knew that she would be in a foul mood.
My father had a real anger management problem, so I was steeling myself for a real beat down when I heard him speak. Robin Quivers: I Didn't Tell!
Unlike English, Latin has two words for 'father': genitor, meaning 'begetter', and pater, meaning 'father' in a spiritually fuller sense. The Feast of St. Joseph
we always ask for man to innocent as child, but able as father.
My father is long dead and his death set me free, so it bothers me that he and his problem can still affect my adult life.
In all things, even till this instant, (being the utmost period of my life) I have evermore found my Fathers love most effectuall to me; but now it appeareth farre greater, then at any time heretofore: and therefore from my mouth, thou must deliver him the latest thankes that ever I shall give him, for sending me such an honourable present. The Decameron
He is also the loving father of an infant daughter. The Times Literary Supplement
As a teenager, he took his father's prize animals to the fair.
The way he laughed was strongly reminiscent of his father.
My father, who fought in the First World War, described fear as not so much a sick feeling as a heightening of the senses.
One day a letter from my father arrived at the school.
I don't really know him so I was shocked to see how much he favors our grandfather and great-grandfather.
My grandfather's Purple Heart ," Frank replied with hardly a moment's hesitation. DEVIL'S CLAW
He struggled at school because of undiagnosed dyslexia and left at 15, after the death of his father. Times, Sunday Times
His maternal grandfather, who fled Russia to avoid conscription by the tsarist army, was a Hebrew scholar, mystic, mathematician, and inventor who made boots and shoes for a living.
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Kamar al-Zaman, son of King Shahriman, went to the Hammam, his father in his joy at this event freed the prisoners, and presented splendid dresses to his grandees and bestowed large alm-gifts upon the poor and bade decorate the city seven days. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
That's when his father took over what was then a restaurant and converted it into a grocery store; as of the making of the film, Toupin fils had lived in that same building (in an apartment upstairs) for all of his 52 years.
Chris has set up a website for lone fathers called Single Fathers Online.
And now he called Ahithophel, and consulted with him what he ought to do: he persuaded him to go in unto his father's concubines; for he said that "by this action the people would believe that thy difference with thy father is irreconcilable, and will thence fight with great alacrity against thy father, for hitherto they are afraid of taking up open enmity against him, out of an expectation that you will be reconciled again. Antiquities of the Jews
My grandfather had among his possessions a portrait by Matisse.
However I did notice something, and it was something that both my wife and father both brought up, there was a strange effect that wasn't there at the World Première, something I described as a fogging or blurring during some scenes, particularly the action ones, which made it hard to follow the action. Filmstalker: Avatar: An Xmas visit
In that local church he met men who fathered him as a son.
The delectable little Dutch songs with which she used to dulcify the house grew less and less frequent, and she would forget her sewing and look wistfully in her father's face as he sat pondering by the fireside. Tales of a Traveller
Ben rushed to his father, crowing with pleasure.
The impression of warmth and comfort and beauty predominated, though he was unable to analyze it; while the simplicity delighted him -- expensive simplicity, he decided, and most of it leftovers from the time her father went broke and died. Chapter XVIII
The young man worked hard in emulation of his famous father.
My father was quite a skinny, emaciated man, my brother a build a stark halfway between my father and I.
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.
They play urban refugees - an unhappily married man and a coffee-shop girl burdened by her ill father - on the threshold of potential love.
During morning prayers, Ifemelu's mother commanded God to bless the General, "Father Lord, bless Uju's mentor," she would say, the word "mentor" pushed out of her mouth like a challenge. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Miracle
My grandfather was a career teacher; it's the only job he'd ever done.
This guy, this kid, teaches his dog, a mongrel, to be a pointer, and his father hates the idea because he breeds pure-breeds.
The elegant cinematography is the work of Jeff Cronenweth (who comes by it naturally; his late father, Jordan, was one of the best shooters of his time). 'Social Network': Password Is Perfection
His father now ceremoniously conducted Mrs. Penniman to what he spoke of as the banqueting hall. The Wrong Twin
In the first horror occasioned by her father's distress from the bills of her brother, she wrote a supplicating letter to Mrs. Mittin, to intreat she would endeavour to quiet her creditors till she could arrange something for their payment. Camilla
Three men charged with the murder of a father of three have been remanded in custody. Times, Sunday Times
A collection of Irish stories was fathered on him.
The union of Christ and the Father within the Godhead is that which we are to believe and rely upon for the certainty of our salvation.
His father, David Ashworth, is wanted for questioning by murder squad detectives but yesterday he was still missing.
Demonstrations of guided missiles, of a patient taking what looks like a Barium swallow in front of a fluoroscope, and the father taking home movies of his child with a video camera and playing them back on his TV all give us pause to remember that whatever good or not-so-good aspects of our present-day lives, we stand on the shoulders of people who were true visionaries more than 50 years ago. Archive 2009-06-01
The homilist was Father Jerry Wooten, assistant pastor of the church that hosted the Mass, Holy Trinity in Gainesville, Va. Solemn Mass in Virginia: A Hopeful Sign of the New Liturgical Movement
His father blurred the distinction between art and life. Times, Sunday Times
The happy event occurred in the Taylor's aviary in Wakefield, after the mother - a kakariki called Cheeky - and father Tom, a golden mantel rosella, were reared together from chicks.
Take this with you, it's been blessed by the Holy Father and it will do you good to use it.
After both their parents died, one of their father's relatives carted off the entire contents of the house.
My father swore by Kodachrome, taking off his thick-rimmed Philip Larkin spectacles to peer myopically through viewfinders. Brownie Points
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This child spent his first eleven years in San Francisco, trailing his father up and down the hills, watching him swim in San Francisco Bay, and cringing from the blows that a drunken dad might aim at his head. Robert Frost
None rested quiet or mute for a second, except the one who kept close as his shadow to her father's side, and unwittingly was treated by him less like the other children, than like some stray spirit of another world, caught and held jealously, but without much outward notice, lest haply it might take alarm, and vanish back again unawares. John Halifax, Gentleman
Nothing could heal the rupture with his father.
Silvi started playing badminton at the age of six when she accompanied her father to his training session.
All Father Damien could do at first was contemplate the pattern of the flock out of which the great logos of his passion was written. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
Grandfather was already in his place and Anna slid into the chair next to his.
Lamptey attempted to reconcile with them and he acceded to his father's dying wish to reconvert to Christianity, but he was pained at the funerals when he 'had to bury them both alone'.
There has been a tenfold increase in fathers' groups in ten years. The Sun
Grandfather sold the russets and the codlings and the pippins from his orchard, and those he didn't sell he stored in his pristine white-washed cellar, where huge black hams and sides of bacon were hanging from black hooks.
(O father of a felt calotte!) 75 In times of mourning Moslem women do not use perfumes or dyes, like the Henna here alluded to in the pink legs and feet of the dove. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
hear our prayers, Heavenly Father
So how, precisely, do I find myself the father of a teenage owner of one five-year-old, skewbald, equine quadruped, about 13 hands tall, who answers, rather inattentively, to the name Buttons? History, Horses and the Luck of the Irish
He didn't realize until much later what a spectacular achievement his father made in getting his commission as an officer.
She's protected Michelle's father's identity for all these years, so she's quite capable of protecting Michelle.
Some of the early church fathers used to argue that marriage was more of a sacrifice than celibacy.
Mind, it is about time that you proposed to Clara, but you ought at least have spoken with your father beforehand.
This discovery led to the invention of the pendulum and various timepieces such as the Grandfather clock, but at the time Galileo could not explain it.
She associated his father, the patriarch - he acting in close concert with his two accountants, neither of whom were called by the Crown.
Though he is a boor, that is to be expected, as his father is an enlisted man. I Met John Scalvi! « Whatever
I first learned to type on a keypunch machine in my father's office.
His father built him a model aeroplane.
The ethic of public service was passed on from his father, who worked in the island's customs office.
Watching the boy toss, turn and slip in and out of a light doze, Laras wondered if he wasn't somehow picking up on his father's tension and frustration in some subtle way.
My father was halfway through his third pint and was becoming increasingly voluble when I spotted a red car turning into the road. Times, Sunday Times
It is true, however, my dear Edward, that you have lost your father; but as to this flourish of his unpleasant situation having grated upon his spirits and hurt his health — the truth is — for though it is harsh to say so now, yet it will relieve your mind from the idea of weighty responsibility — the truth then is, that Mr. Richard Waverley
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.
Likewise, the status of the father determined that of the offspring; the children of a noblewoman who married a commoner would not be noble.
He had a troubled childhood, being frequently beaten by his father and uncles who disapproved of his artistic interests.
We salute his many accomplishments as an astronaut and as a husband and father.
When her father died in 1874, Hannah inherited two million pounds in cash, Mentmore and its priceless collection of art and furniture. Rothschild, Hannah de, Countess of Rosebery.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. Sigmund Freud
Thus the new connotations and conceptualizations put forth by the Fathers revitalized the Church's memory of what the Apostles taught, and historical theology today would enable us to revitalize our memory of what the "unsurpassable" Fathers taught. Archive 2007-03-01
It can be tough when your father, the prime minister, has just indulged in pulpitry about drunken yobs.
Hotspur is an uncommon man, whose uncommonness is unsupported by his father at a critical moment. William Shakespeare
But Ngurn's father, wrapped in decaying grass-matting and hanging even then over their heads among the smoky rafters of the devil-devil house, had held otherwise. THE RED ONE
About to be disinherited from the family fortune, Stephen returns to home after a long estrangement and it happens to be the night his father is shot to death. The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien: Book summary
His father's death gave him a whole new perspective on life.
I crossed myself, I greeted the priest, I kissed his hand, and my father understood.
When they finally found the daughter, the wife and grandparents refused to let her go to visit her dying father.
But I never thought of him as anti-violent until Uma Thurman's father came on my "Con Games" radio show in Aspen to lead me monkishly down the path of virtue. Michael Conniff: CON GAMES: Violence On The QT With Quentin Tarantino
Our second annual spring trip to the Upper Catch and Release Area of the Miller's River, my father caught this nice brown trout, and caught flak from the elitists because he was using the fly rod with a spinning reel and rooster tail and catching fish, while the elitist fly fishers were getting skunked all morning. Field & Stream
The refusal to pray for an unbelieving kindred is justified, according to Mahomet, by the duty of a prophet, and the example of Abraham, who reprobated his own father as an enemy of God. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
His father is a staff sergeant in the army.
They would have to pay for a housefather to live here and, on top of that, utilities.
Behind him an antique grandfather clock slowly ticks away. Times, Sunday Times
It was the elder son, he said, who just could not accept the generosity and graciousness of his father in welcoming back a lost and wayward brother.
What began in 1968 as a Beltway junkie's labor of love has turned into an authoritative collection of whistle-stopping campaign slogans and vicious slings and arrows of partisan attacks that stretches all the way back to the Founding Fathers (who came up with terms like "electioneer" and the party "ticket"). How to Sound Presidential
She plays Themba's daughter who returns from exile to learn the unpalatable truth about her father.
When face-to-face, he would just call him baba (father).
He was a loving husband and devoted father. The Sun
Philosophy major Wylie Dufresne hopes to dine with founding fathers, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson; compares line cooks to lab researchers; and rejects the term molecular gastronomy to define the cuisine at his Michelin-star namesake restaurant, wd~50. Louise McCready: Curious Wylie Dufresne Defends the Science of Cooking
Yet, more serious is the blunder in his statement "the Finzi-Continis moved out of society altogether and began to cultivate what B's father sees as absurd pretensions to nobility (the name Finzi-Contini in Italian actually suggests 'fake little counts'). Bassani's Father
Our forefathers and foremothers in 1951 were concerned with the way medical practice relates to changing times, a theme that sounds familiar today.
‘You may indeed, ma'am,’ Ben replied, ‘She is in excellent health, as are my Father and sister.’
Your father-in-law should instruct a solicitor to obtain these. Times, Sunday Times
Your father had agreed with the Prince's parents on marrying the both of you when the time was right.
The court heard he was cautioned for stealing and crashing his father's car in February 2000.
On May 20th, 2001, hundreds of people came from all over to honor my father.
My grandfather had refused to put her in a nursing home and continued to interact with her as if she was a normal person.
The girls 'father, Giuseppe De Vito, disappeared in 2006 after the RCMP issued a warrant for his arrest on drug charges as part of what they called a sweeping crackdown on organized crime. Ottawa Sun
The christological inflection of the triune name is the familiar formula ‘the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.’
Clive's father gave her a considerable leg up when he appointed her director of the family firm.
I have to applaud Chris for his miraculous, classy turn-around from drug-riddled dope fiend to responsible father and Broadway star.
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- In Idaho Falls hundreds came to the Civic Auditorium to celebrate our day of independence by listening to the founding fathers themselves. LocalNews8.com - Local News 8 - Headlines
My paternal grandfather actually helped build the old part and then after it was built, got a job weaving and he was here all his life.
They have to find the fathers who abandon their children and make them pay maintenance.
He was scared of incurring his father's wrath .
My father had always said that there are four things a child needs plenty of love, nourishing food, fegular sleep, and lots of soap and water---and after those, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.
Less a matter of choice than of male social identity, party affiliation passed from father to son. American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
In the study, he pulled the drop cloths off the crates holding his books-his and his great-aunt 's and his father's and his mother's. NEW YORK DEAD
My father tried to induce me to learn Arabic poetry by heart, encouraged me, gave me prizes - also for knowledge in astronomy.
Abraham Granish, Winehouse's great-great grandfather, was a Russian immigrant described as a "hawker", selling goods door-to-door, who lived in the Spitalfields area of the capital. News24
In second-hand bookshops around Melbourne you can still find copies of his grandfather's sermons.
Let me care for Hester in my own way so long as I do no sin and harm no one; and be you father to us, and bless us who else must go unblessed. The Kempton-Wace Letters
I have found myself pacing around trying but failing to find things to do to keep my mind occupied, occasionally popping into the nursery in a fatherly manner to make sure that the useless door hinge has not failed on the tallboy.
She reminded her of a woman who babysat for her back when she still had both her father and her stepmother around.
She had grown up both bilingual and bicultural, speaking Maidu with her mother and English with her father, a Dutch settler who had come Wisconsin by covered wagon as a child.

How To Use Father In A Sentence

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