How To Use Sister In A Sentence

Before Malfurion could ask who she meant, Tyrande brought the glaive up in a salute and murmured something in the hidden tongue of the Sisterhood. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
She has one annoying but lovable big brother that looks out for her, and a little sister that adores and idolizes her.
Brunhild, a mischievous, strong-minded goldfish (the voice of Noah Cyrus, Miley's younger sister), is determined to become a little girl when she's rescued from a jar and befriended by Sosuke (the voice of Frankie Jonas, the Jonas Brothers 'kid brother), a plucky, self-reliant 5-year-old. No Time's Right for 'Traveler's Wife'
It should be appreciated that brothers, sisters, stepbrothers and stepsisters are not entitled to any share of the inheritance when children and parents of the deceased are alive.
She visited her relatives in Castledermot on a yearly basis when her brother and sister were alive.

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She is also survived by her sons, daughters and sister-in-law.
His sister Anaumed went over to Armorica in 490, and upon her arrival was married to Budic, king of the Armorican Britons. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
My sister has a much bigger frame than me.
When my sister taught at a junior school they celebrated all the religious festivals.
Above the altar is a portrait of St. Francis de Sales, painted by a fellow convert who became a Visitation sister. Cardinal Newman at Birmingham: Liturgical Items (Part 3 of 3)
Her elder sister's been acting rather funnily just recently.
The jury, which began deliberations last Friday after a six-week trial, had to decide whether Castroneves, his sister-manager Katiucia "Kati" Castroneves, 35, and Michigan sports attorney Alan R. Miller, 71, evaded U.S. taxes on more than $5.5 million income that the race driver earned between 1999-2004 from his arrangement with Penske Racing. Undefined
You see where the footmarks are, there, and that was my little sister, those two smallest lots of footmarks were there.
And your sister-in-law, I think all she knows of you is the squeak, that is what I was saying before. Heartfire
Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters. Jamaica Information Service
Meanwhile, the sister is trying to maintain standards and dignity, washing her clothes and covering her body.
This was wondered at, as my uncle has introduced him into our family declaredly as a visitor to my sister. Clarissa Harlowe
I overhear the tail-end of a conversation my sister is having with someone or other.
Chiengmai; but it was curious, even amusing, to observe the serene contempt with which the "interlopers" were received by the rival incumbents of the royal gynecium, -- especially the Laotian women, who are of a finer type and much handsomer than their Siamese sisters. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, and their gifted sister Anne Bronte came from a large family of Irish origin.
As Abbey put her stained pinafore in the sink, she wondered what in the world could make her older sister so sweet on Shad one moment, and then on Zongala the next.
My sister's little boy is a real delight.
Sister Morrison parted lips that had been tightly, even whitely, compressed. SAN ANDREAS
She was, of course, my sister, and I loved her, but I had never mothered her the way I had doted on Henry or - most of all - Maggie.
We are told also by his sister -- and there is no incongruity in the two accounts -- that he early displayed a taste for 'preheminence and would preside over his playmates as their master and they his hired servants.' The Rowley Poems
He had assumed that of the two sisters she was the practical one, the heartier, the more robust. THE OTHER DEVIL'S NAME
To swell into the hammer-swinging hardhat who loomed in the parlor sipping vodka and orange juice, hurling brickbat words and scraps of heart shrapnel at my mother, sister and me. 1997: What I Wanted
But the joy of that tends to become clouded by the extreme sadness of another Christmas without my sister.
To have shown it to her husband would have been her first impulse; but, besides that he was absent from home, and the matter too delicate to be the subject of correspondence by an indifferent penwoman, Mrs. Butler recollected that he was not possessed of the information necessary to form a judgment upon the occasion; and that, adhering to the rule which she had considered as most advisable, she had best transmit the information immediately to her sister, and leave her to adjust with her husband the mode in which they should avail themselves of it. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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.
Having ogled females in feathers, let's move on to Sisters In Leather, a black-and-white Sixties nudie which, despite its title, is not a ‘roughie’.
At my sister's birthday meal last Friday our gnashers made a rare showing together in public.
Many say a sense of sisterhood motivates them to protect other mothers from the fear and pain they have faced.
My sister's taste in dresses is contrary to my own.
Her sisters had been praised and admired and stared at all their lives for their spellbinding, hypnotic electric-blue eyes.
Tom's sister says he is weak in the upper storey.
In contrast, Princess Sirindhorn, his sister, enjoys a saintly image as a patron of charity.
It is of old a native of the East, sister of the tornado, the earthquake, and the simoom.
He thought every thing was to be feared from the present state of the affair, and proposed revealing at once all he knew of it to Mr. Tyrold: but Camilla desired him to take no step till she had again expostulated with her sister, who might else be seriously hurt or offended. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
My sister, indolent and unimaginative as she was, had visions of endless touch-typing speed trials supervised by austere women under flickering striplights.
His sister played cricket, then considered very much a silvertail sport for girls in private schools.
My sister's little boy is a real delight.
She costarred with her twin sister in a new film.
My mind was clear and the only words flowing were the words my younger sister had just said.
His brother now had to assume responsibility for them as well as for his own growing family, particularly when it soon became evident that his sister-in-law, Ethel, could not cope.
When I mentioned that I couldn't quite see that it was the lack of thrift, the intemperance, and the depravity of a half-starved child of six that made it work twelve hours every night in a Southern cotton mill, these sisters of Judy O'Grady attacked my private life and called me an "agitator" -- as though that, forsooth, settled the argument. Revolution, and Other Essays
Well, she's the version of Samantha's sister (can't for the life of me remember the name, and I can't be bothered getting up to walk to my room and taking a squiz at the book).
I believe my sister to be honest.
I take in the dock-green porch swing , the birch-leg table , the twin BED where my sister sleeps , the smoky glass of the kerosene lantern.
She used to play games of make-believe with her elder sister.
But the younger sister was an actress even then; loud, raucous and playing to the crowd.
‘You may indeed, ma'am,’ Ben replied, ‘She is in excellent health, as are my Father and sister.’
She could hear her sister shuffling along the hard floor.
Stern and serious moral advice to women on how to behave has a sweeter-natured sister.
It is naughty of you to pull your baby sister's hair.
Marge's chain-smoking, DMV-working sister, Selma, feels the tick of her biological clock.
My sister went on to describe noises she'd been hearing, the regular old creaks and cracks that are heard in all houses and she'd also heard a clicking sound.
Flora, who has three half-sisters whom she has also never met, added that she would one day like to meet them too.
While the father and sister were delighted with the crackle, sparkle and pleasant aroma of the bits of spicewood, as Abe tossed them upon the fire, no one could appreciate the thoughtful act of the boy so much as his mother. The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln
Rom. 16:15 Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them.
She heard her sister's complaint and paid no attention.
He is survived by his father Jimmy, brothers Paddy, Liam and John, sisters Eileen and Mary, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nephews, nieces, relatives and friends.
She had a strong and supportive sister who urged her on.
Telli's sister, his grandmother and two aunts were busy round the fireplace preparing the night's meal.
With the help of his older stepsisters, Curtis met his biological mother in 1990.
And there just behind us, over the fence outside the park, a steady flow of modern red London buses plied their scheduled routes up the Seven Sisters Road.
My sister and I could barely contain ourselves, we thought it was so funny and ingenious.
The entire family was in a strop because of my sister.
She is just a copycat who follows her sister's lead in everything.
In some cases, one subcomponent of a larger department may have a child-care subsidy program while a sister agency does not. Child-care subsidy is spotty for government employees
Not just the actual sodomites like myself, but the Sapphic Sisterhood, the Hamite Alliance, the League of Heathens and Infidels, Atheists Anonymous, a whole panoply of progressive thinkers, aligned and unaligned, to whom your rant reads as the ethically repugnant ravings of a sociopath, given that it has so little concern for aforesaid "empathy". An Open Letter to John C. Wright
Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been _dead_ four days. The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young
My sister's always pinching me and it really hurts.
The removal of the State capital from Milledgeville to Atlanta also gave the renaissant city a good start, and the wonderful manner in which it drew trade and capital to it from all sides made it the envy of its sister Georgian cities. The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
My sister is eight years younger than me, and did not have the Jewish education I was blessed to have had.
My sister has become devoutly Orthodox Jewish.
Gielow just missed a long putt on the second playoff hole that would have given him the title, giving Gielow and his 14-year-old sister Britni - making her first appearance as his caddie - Undefined
It has lower concentrations of allicin and cinnamaldehyde than its sister products, Garlic Freeze Dried and Alli-Cinn but contains caprylates as the third component.
So long as tutors and governesses only had to deal with their own pupils, all went well, but when the brothers and sisters were all together, and influenced by the spirit of insubordination and love of playing pranks which the elder ones brought back from school, we made life hard and sour to the preceptorial body. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
They browbeat my sister to order my execution, virtually to the moment of her final breath. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
My sister Yvonne also came to live at Ockenden Cottage with me.
The Ciona Î²Î³-crystallin is only expressed in the palps and in the otolith, the pigmented sister cell of the light-sensing ocellus. Insight Into Eye Evolution Deals Blow To Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb
Sister Margaret wasn't more than five feet two in her low-heeled black shoes.
This exposed strand then searches for a copy of itself (located on its sister chromosome), and "photocopies" past the broken region, repairing the DNA and zipping itself back up. Newswise: Latest News
Above Dominic's bed hangs the watercolour painting he made as a gift for his twin sister Rebecca and the letters sent to him by relatives and friends.
The economy suffers, as my sisters and brothers fear going to work lest they find a bullet in their mailbox.
My sister-in-law has recovered from the shock, and we feel safe again now that Pepe is no longer in the house. An unexpected visit
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
The small collection of tops and skirts, based loosely on 1930s Chinese dresses, is elegant and demure, a long way from boho - the floaty skirts, peasant tops and leather disk belts her sister had us all wearing last summer.
Dreadful!" moaned Sister Ann. "Adnah goes about sighing all the day, and looks over-long in the mirror, and takes unseemly pains with her dressing, and does up her hair with flowers, and has feverishly pink cheeks, and likes to sit in a corner and brood, and takes long walks by herself, and especially, _especially_, seems fond of moonlight! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)
Kara smiled a big toothy grin at her sister.
Children are encouraged to attend with parents, brothers, sisters, relatives and pets to direct their own family portrait.
Differing from his sister in body as well as in mind, he was a slender, well-set youth, his hair more red than the usual bronze of a dalesman. The Crystal Gryphon
Chen, who is now playing elder sister to many of her younger classmates, has already accustomed herself to the endless backward somersaults, handstands and horse vaults.
Her sister was brooding on the bladed gauntlets and their meaning.
“Is she a pretty girl?” said the Duke; “her sister does not get beyond a good comely sonsy lass.” The Heart of Mid-Lothian
[A] divine fire coming down visibly, with a terrible noise, from heaven upon the holy community of sisters while they were praising God in their psalmody. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
Her deep hatred of her sister was obvious.
His sister Tamara is a close friend of mine, and I am the godmother to her daughter, I have a great relationship with all of the Castagnolas.
The was a light knock on the door and Sister Nicci stood wringing out Cassandra's hair and shaking her hands then opened the door.
Desperate to hold on to her beloved son, Yvonne turns to her sister Leonie (Eileen Arkins), the bastion of rationality in this "raggle-taggle gypsy" family. Unhappy In Their Own Way
She's telling me to acknowledge the sister and she's also bringing up the baby of the family.
At least Scott thought they were made of plastic, his sister's doll house seemed to be better built than the portapack. Exiled from English
Sister Aimee was a talented thespian as well as a legendarily eloquent preacher.
She alerts her sister Procne by weaving the tale into a tapestry — then the sisters plot against Tereus. See Delphi and Die
In such a case, the only women who will interfere and warn the intended victim will be his own relatives – a mother or a sister; others, while under no delusions as to the interested nature of the motives by which the pursuer is actuated, will hold their tongues, and even go so far as to offer facilities for the chase. Marriage as a Trade
Molecular phylogenies have suggested that hemichordates are in fact a sister lineage to the echinoderms.
My dear brethren and sisters, I must still tell you that I have been four times in danger of my life when running in my kaiak, for so often have I been overset when I was quite alone. The Moravians in Labrador
His father, on account of Ajax carrying off his sister Hesione, encouraged him in his obstinacy and guilt. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
Her sister lies sleeping on the couch, her quiet snores almost inaudible.
Tracy rushed her sister into the toilets to cool down the affected areas while other family members took advice from an off-duty fireman who was also dining at the restaurant.
At 17 she got a job as a health care assistant at Airedale Hospital, where advice from a ward sister encouraged her to start training as a nurse.
She's very thoughtful - the direct opposite of her sister.
Your sister is trying to read;please be quiet for her sake.
I hope they go away and tell their parents, brothers and sisters about this, so that they come as well.
They are good people & I have had one of the Yoder was his Sir name stop to help my sister & I when I was having car trouble. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
`It's OK, kiddo, nothing bad's gonna happen with your sisters here. SUMMER OF SECRETS
My sister and I continue to be venerated by our people, who built shrines and declared national holidays in our honor.
She is a carbon copy of her sister.
It's my sister's old one, and I've come to learn that if you move it or even shake it, the screen will flick off.
It is popular to assume that other people resist change but, of course, we are all potential resisters of change.
She is the same height as her sister.
Princess found herself shut up in the palkee, and being carried she knew not where, she thought how terrible it would be for her sister to return home and find her gone, and determined, if possible, to leave some sign to show her which way she had been taken. Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know
A comedy about becoming fully conscious, AND SOPHIE COMES TOO follows the three Abramowitz sisters and their mother Sophie, who may or may not wake from a coma before her daughters take control of their increasingly chaotic lives: Barbara, a single lesbian, doesn't want her wacky family's calamity to interfere with her sex life or the pending adoption of a baby girl from China. BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
Of course, the kid threw up a stink, started yelling and screaming, and its elder sister had to drag it off for a replacement.
Since two of the primitive calymenides, Pharostomina and Bavarilla, had natant hypostomes it seems very likely that the Cambrian sister taxon would also be natant.
Then she called her handmaid and said to her, Go to Shajarat al-Durr and say to her, Thy sister saluteth thee and biddeth thee to her; so favour her by coming to her this night, according to thy custom, for her breast is straitened. ' Arabian nights. English
In those letters I discovered and fell in love with Nannerl, Mozart's sister, almost five years older than her brother, a prodigy in her own right, a marvelous singer and remarkable harpsichordist. George Heymont: The Shadow of Your Sib
Seems unfair, but sons of earls are mere "Honorables," like the famous Mitford sisters and the children of viscounts and barons, except that first-born sons of earls and viscounts quite often use the title of one of dad's spare baronies. Peerless Titles
He first appeared in Wigtown in about 1943, after being invalided out of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, where he'd served as an officer on a sister ship of the Titanic.
The singer was accompanied on the piano by her sister.
In other words, what we need is a genuine commitment to the principles of universal brotherhood and sisterhood.
It would seem that Sammy's dear little darling sister has struck again.
A boy seriously burned in a fire that killed his older brother eight years ago has saved his younger brother and sister from another blaze at their Bradford home.
Wong Ping Yee tries to help two sisters who own the Four Seas restaurant (Cherrie Ying and Ai Kago) while training a young and romantically foolish wannabe chef named Ken'ichi Lung Kin Yat (Vanness Wu) to win the competition which will make him the Top Chef of China. George Heymont: A Chaotic Cornucopia of Culinary Cinema (VIDEOS)
He has welcomed his sister and her protégée, but his heart - and most of his attention - remains in the past. WEEKEND FOR MURDER
She had not spoken to her parents in years and contact with her sisters was sporadic and infrequent.
Its impressive network of canals may lack the gondolas of its Italian sister, but the view at dusk is pretty and romantic while standing on any number of foot paths and bridges dotting the city. Magda Abu-Fadil: The Other Face of Hamburg (PHOTOS)
We've arranged to stay overnight at my sister's house.
This darkly comic fable tells how the revenge plans for a New Year's Eve party go horribly wrong, as two wicked sisters plan the downfall of the third and most successful one.
My dad's sister is sending up some towels and bedding at some point.
The sentence 'Her youngest sister - the one who lives in Australia - is coming over next summer' contains a parenthesis.
During the summer before my junior year of college, my sister announced her engagement to a man she had met in college.
Another aspect which holds large appeal for the child is the vileness of the stepmother and stepsisters.
Some few months after, at a show of gladiators, when men and women sat promiscuously in the theater, no distinct places being as yet appointed, there sat down by Sylla a beautiful woman of high birth, by name Valeria, daughter of Messala, and sister to The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
He's bringing contemporary works to Los Angeles, including Christopher Wheeldon's 2006 "DGV," originally created for the Royal Ballet; a new piece, "Epimetheus," by Russell Ducker, from Britain, a company member; and "Solea," a pas de deux for Mr. Corella and his sister created by the flamenco dancer María Pagés, and. Debra Levine: Ballet's Angel Corella Looks Ahead ... and Back
sisterly kindness
My sister lives in Alaska, so I only see her once in a blue moon.
If today is the first day of summer, then it must also be my baby sister's birthday.
Now she must talk her sister through the process a step at a time.
Sister Sadie" is a mishmash of thumby keyboards and missed guitar notes. The Clog
The sister and wife of Zeus the principal goddess of the Pantheon the pantroness primarily of marriage and the well-being of women the mother of Ares Hephaestus and Hebe.
He got his sister to help him with his homework.
As a corollary to their sequestration, the sisters have developed a kind of incantatory and interchangeable speech, often speaking in unison.
Maddy Crippen, the sister of the former University of Virginia swimmer who died over the weekend competing in an open-water race, said her brother had voiced concerns about safety. Fran Crippen's sister says swimmer expressed safety concerns
My twin sister and I have got the same nose.
"You reminded me of someone I once knew.‥" (Query her sister?)
Finally it came down to Jason and my sister, and I'm more than ecstatic to report that my sister creamed him, taking home the trophy and bragging rights, which she just happened to use on me for the rest of the week.
She is survived by her husband, sons, mother, brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces and other relations.
[*] Though the judge's portrait, reprinted in White Heat, suggests the very antithesis of Byronic romance, it was very likely Lord in whose arms Emily Dickinson was reputedly once seen "reclining" in the Homestead parlor by her scandalized neighbor/sister-in-law Susan Dickinson. The Woman in White
She's nowhere near as clever as her sister.
Another personality was Harry Hemsley, who had a little boy who spoke in an unintelligible gabble, but was understood perfectly well by his elder sister.
Paragraph of the definition then goes on to say that, to avoid doubt, it includes brothers, stepbrothers, stepsisters, step-parents or guardians, grandparents, and so forth.
Sasha laid his new sister carefully in the playpen that had been erected in the corner of the living room.
Anne obviously did not share her sister's compunction about frightening her mother. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
We will talk with the groom's sister here in Atlanta.
Cassandra, her older sister Rose and her younger brother Thomas are living in poverty even more abject than the Bastables, in a broken - down castle.
The small mote on her forehead distinguishes her from her twin sister.
Some are touchingly intimate: my sister-in-law received a set of pastel-colored cotton panties from her middle-school homeroom students, and to my utter amazement was utterly unamazed.
At the foot of the garden path she found her eldest sister, picking some of the flowers their gardener had allowed to grow wild there.
She's going to her sister's for the evening.
My mother showed up but headed right for the kitchen, seizing this golden opportunity to rearrange my sister's kitchen.
Female baboons tend to form the tightest bonds with their mothers, aunts, and sisters.
While it does not gain the respect that its sister to the North has claimed, the finest Gamays from select appellations in Beaujolais have been known to age to perfection, resembling fine Pinot Noir.
My sister considers herself "multiethnic" which is her right. Obama Census Choice: African-American
Before her departure to Spain she ran a successful beauty clinic with her sister Deirdre who ran a hairdressers salon at New Line Road.
A jury in Canada has found three members of an Afghan family guilty of drowning three teenage sisters and another woman in what the judge described as "cold-blooded, shameful murders" resulting from a "twisted concept of honour". 'Honour killings': Canadian jury finds Afghan family guilty
But she recently received correspondence telling her she had a half-sister in Australia.
That foolish sister of mine was actually unbarring the back door. The House on the Borderland
Aside from my life being turned upside down with my mother having been ill and now with my sister-in-law being in palliative care in Halifax, things have been somewhat topsy-turvy. PhotHunter: Downside Up « Mudpuddle
That smell, my fellow cellulite-ridden brothers and sisters, that smell is not cup cakes, toaster strudel or spaghetti!
To a certain extent undoubtedly this may be traced back to the new czar's personal relations with the rulers of other nations; for the czarina was a sister of The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers
The daughter of the surviving sister drove some distance to be present for the visitation and funeral, thinking about how sad her mother would be, how she would miss those weekends with her sister.
Eighteen pieces range from early bronzes through mask-like aquatints and oil portraits of his sister Marguerite to a late and joyful cobalt-blue paper cut-out of a nude.
As well as the usual dancing, there will be a special demonstration by Laucinda and her sister, who is a semi-professional dancer, the details of which are being kept a surprise until the night.
I found him this morning somewhat discomposed. His wife and her mother and sister were to arrive yesterday by the morning train.
The witch doctor poisons a chicken, and, from the way the chicken staggers before dropping dead, the witch doctor determines that the rash has been caused by the client's sister-in-law bewitching him.
Momma and Tony the jeweler inscribe, `For my sister, Leigh". WEB OF DREAMS
I told my sister I'd lend her my new shirt if she let me borrow her jacket, but she didn't take the bait.
‘Nothing for me, sir, thank you,’ anxiously undrawing the strings of the little bag; ‘but if, while you stay here, you could be so kind as to teach my sister cheap —’ Little Dorrit
Bethel and Cynthia, brown Kodiak Bear sisters whom zookeepers said are among the oldest in captivity, started their birthday at Sydney's zoo with a special breakfast of fresh, whole salmon.
Her sister, Rachel, sat on the couch, her hands clasped tightly together.
A few years ago, the bilious 1990s backlash against single parents living on crumbling estates - like my sister - was slowly receding.
With her silent calm, his sister-in-law sighed, leaning against the doorpost.
A slightly bigger sister snuck up on him and shoved him with a punch towards his intended victim.
I now know that my fellow brothers and sisters, the lawyers of New Zealand, will be in a position to practise in front of the highest court of our country.
Carlos and his five brothers and sisters grew up in a tiny village in northern Mexico, Autlan de Navarro, where the streets were unpaved and chickens ran riot.
Today on Christmas, the Chic Geek my sister agraphic designer at UTC, got me this really awesome screen print poster of Leonard Nimoy’s Spock from Star Trek: The Original Series. Cool: Spock Screen Print Poster from Young Monster
She was struck dumb and he walked past her carefully to call her sister.
She used to wear her sister's cast-offs.

How To Use Sister In A Sentence

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