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mother-in-law

[ US /ˈməðɝɪnˌɫɔ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the mother of your spouse

How To Use mother-in-law In A Sentence

  • Always a good idea to keep the future mother-in-law sweet. The Sun
  • With consummate courtesy Alex got rid of his future mother-in-law, in record time. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
  • Sheffer -- who knew what makes business men laugh -- pinned his simple faith to three main subjects, convulsive of the diaphragmatic muscles, building up each series upon the inherent humor to be extracted from physical violence as represented in the perpetrations and punishments of Ruff and Reddy, marital infidelity as mirrored in the stratagems and errancies of an amorous ape with an aged and jealous spouse, and the sure-fire familiarity of aged minstrel jokes (mother-in-law, country constable, young married cookery, and the like) refurbished in pictorial serials through the agency of two uproarious and imbecilic vulgarians, Bonehead and Buttinsky. Success A Novel
  • The devastated land included farms leased to tenants by Vermeer's mother-in-law.
  • She was once very fat and is now very thin, but he recognises her as his former mother-in-law. Times, Sunday Times
  • TODAY'S gags are mother-in-law jokes from the internet. The Sun
  • Subsequently, Wu could not adapt to life in Singapore and often felt that she was being mistreated by her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, whom she called "calculative". Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
  • Home builders across the country say they are getting an increasing number of requests for such additions, known as mother-in-law suites, granny flats or accessory dwellings. Mother-in-law suites growing home trend
  • If the bathroom is cold for most of the day, choose sansevierias (mother-in-law's tongue) - which will also survive in a poorly lit bathroom - or Nepenthes alata, a carnivorous plant with unusual hanging red traps.
  • He needed to talk to his future mother-in-law and convince her that his intentions were honorable.
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