How To Use Great-aunt In A Sentence
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Everyone in my line can change, from my grandfather to my great-aunt Doris.
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On my last visit before her death, accompanied by my mother and by Nurse, my great-aunt had been alert in her freezing flat.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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Michael worked the pub and took it over from my great-aunt.
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I separate peas and beans for my great-aunt, just like I do for Grandpa at his house.
The Memory Palace
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This summer, Papernick has gone as old school as your great-aunt Gidl, getting out the cart and doing something booksellers wish all authors could do -- handselling copies of his fabulous new collection of short stories, "There is No Other," one copy at a time at local markets with the slogan, "Bringing Market-Fresh Fiction Directly to the People.
Alex Green: The Right (and Old School) Way to Sell A Book
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In June my great-aunt passed away in Pecos, TX and I headed back home for the funeral - I had just been there a few weeks before for vacation.
Marfa and a plate of stacked enchiladas | Homesick Texan
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The smallest group, the oldest generation that included grandparents, great-aunts, and great-uncles, and occasionally a great-grandparent, took up only a few chairs.
Shock of Gray
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A horrible orange blanket in my front room; drinking bourbon with my great-aunt Mary in St Louis.
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I'm not just saying this for effect: my mother corrected me recently when I spoke of her aunt, my great-aunt, in the present tense.
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Technically, they are great-aunts and great-uncles, but when talking about them or addressing them directly, I call them aunt or uncle.
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When Iris is looking up records of her great-aunt she ‘reads of refusals to speak, of unironed clothes, of never wanting marital relations or wanting them too much or not enough or not in the right way or seeking them elsewhere.’
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Her great-aunt disliked her natural mother and had no hopes for her daughter, ‘the black lamb of the black sheep.’
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A horrible orange blanket in my front room; drinking bourbon with my great-aunt Mary in St Louis.
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I am due to inherit some sizeable pieces of Georgian furniture and large paintings from a great-aunt.
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You could show the book to your great-aunt Jane and she would think it was lovely.
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The text in the Telegraph speaks of “oversized chunky details on knitwear … The look is very much hand-knitted, but way beyond anything you could hope to receive from your great-aunt at Christmas.”
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And all that the note told me of was that my great-aunt was ill and my parents didn't know where I was at the time, so they drove off to Wisconsin to go visit her, before she perhaps croaked.
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The author admitted that it was an inability to write another cookery book after 25 years on the subject that prompted her to investigate a family rumour that a great-aunt died of a broken heart.
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She may be in a unique position to know - the comedienne was her great-aunt.
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If, however, his lumbago is flaring up and so Great-Aunt Matilda will be taking over for this year only, I have no idea how the turkey will be.
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A horrible orange blanket in my front room; drinking bourbon with my great-aunt Mary in St Louis.
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Thus a grand-father is a father of a parent of yours and great-aunt or grand-aunt is the name given to an aunt of your parent's.
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Then his great-aunt, who was a paediatrician, came in one day and said she thought he had familial dysautonomia.
Times, Sunday Times
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The letter mentioned my great-aunt and uncle only incidentally.
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My relationship with Eva was closer than the term great-aunt usually suggests.
Three adoptions in the family
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He obtained leave to visit his dying father and then bought himself out of the army with a small legacy from a great-aunt.
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When your great-aunt, great-uncle and two cousins are thesps, plus, as he puts it, ‘your grandmother is the greatest Shakespearean actress in all Lithuania, you are hardly likely to drift into the fish trade’.
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But when you see your grandma or great-auntie wearing a lovely old-fashioned breastpin, bound around with gold, and holding a pink stone, shining like crystal, with a white carved head or other figure standing out from the lower stone, you may know it is a very valuable ornament, and was probably made from one of the finest shells found in the sea.
Lord Dolphin
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The boy's great-aunt, Angela Gilliam, said Lashaun was "doing good" and "taking it all in.
N.Y. town reeling after family drowns
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This summer, Jonathan Papernick has gone as old school as your great-aunt Gidl, getting out the cart and handselling copies of his fabulous new collection of short stories.
Alex Green: The Right (and Old School) Way to Sell A Book
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Aff he went when he got the siller, and a bit later an auld great-aunt left him a bit mair, sae he took a muckle big farm doon sooth, and noo he's at the inn cracking crouse aboot his pedigree beasts and sheep, and swankin 'awa as to what he's done syne he left these parts, just as if we didna ken the sort o' man he was, and aye will be.
Border Ghost Stories
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And she was my great-aunt Donna, someone that I know, someone whose voice I can hear in my head teasing me, rather than "my grandma's sister Donna, I don't know, she died when I was little" because twenty-five years ago, she got a kidney transplant.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
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They had never had a proper home as a family in Germany: touring with the dance company and staying in rooming houses, the children living most of the time with their grandmother and great-aunts, away from the parents.
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Flynn explained how Great-Aunt Bunty's windfall could not have come at a better time.
TICKLED PINK
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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
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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.
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And when you think back to your aunts and your great-aunts and the story of your family, can you remember stories of men who had intellectual disability?
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In spare yet stirring prose, she recounts the life of her great-aunt Arizona, who "was born in a log cabin her papa built. .. in the Blue Ridge Mountains."
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Oh, and yes, you read the obituary correctly - he is survived by his older sister, my great-aunt Shirley.
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Soon after college when my great-aunt's copy of "The Brown Derby Cookbook" was handed down to me, I began Cobb salad experiments in my own kitchen.
Screen Siren Cobb Salad
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Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt , besides keeping this Educational Institution, kept - in the same room - a little general shop.
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Goodwin says in her own family tree she discovered a great-aunt whose place of birth was the Govan poorhouse, and whose mother's occupation was listed as pauper.
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Having rectified that, it's now firmly on my list of places I wouldn't mind living if a hitherto unsuspected wealthy great-aunt died and left me her musty manse.
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I don’t want to call your great-aunt and tell her I murdered you by flea bomb.
THE EXTRA MAN
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Our great-aunt had one of those old-fashioned exercise machines down there.
Brutal
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Murder, deceit, and malice await Sara when she comes to visit her great-aunt Contessa Belzoni in Venice of the 1880s.
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Now a DNA comparison between the woman he claims is his great-aunt and his own grandfather may finally put the matter beyond all doubt.
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Joanna died in a violent robbery when I was three, and I continued to live with my great-aunt and great-uncle for two more years, before I was adopted by Kathryn, the only person I think of as “Mom.”
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
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Other people in my family have died over the years - all my grandparents, great-aunts and uncles and so on.
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When her great-Aunt (an Evil Stepmother) dies, Estelle is under suspicion by the authorities and hopes to be cleared by a member of the Static Society.
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His sister-in-law, my great-aunt, is the last one left in his generation.
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For a while he lived with his great-uncle and great-aunt, while his mother and grandmother worked for rich families.
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Joanna died in a violent robbery when I was three, and I continued to live with my great-aunt and great-uncle for two more years, before I was adopted by Kathryn, the only person I think of as “Mom.”
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
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I have an aunt, a great-aunt and a great-great-grandmother all named Lisa.
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This house belongs to my great-aunt; you will meet her at suppertime, which is six.
Time and Again
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He was flying to Washington with his mom to visit a great-aunt.
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When Finn is sent to live with his great-aunt for the summer, he's thrilled by the possibility of adventure offered by the wilderness surrounding the house.
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I, who once had been a lonely little girl, am now mother, mother-in-law, aunt, great-aunt, grandmother, and great grand mother!
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Toby went off after her several hours ago; he thought she would have gone to see her great-aunt Phyllis.
SANDS OF TIME
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Maybe it was just the fact that I grew up near the ‘old home places’ but I knew a great-uncle and a great-aunt when they were well into their nineties.
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Zoe had been close to her great-aunt, and went to stay with her as Alma once did.
LOST CHILDREN
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Looking at a picture of my great-grandmother and my great-aunt together in 1898, I was compelled to find out more.
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Maybe it was just the fact that I grew up near the ‘old home places’ but I knew a great-uncle and a great-aunt when they were well into their nineties.
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The name came from a great-aunt on my mother's side, whom I never knew.
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I called my great-aunt and made plans to go to her apartment in Rego Park, Queens, for the holiday.
THE EXTRA MAN
