How To Use Sisterly In A Sentence

  • Rachael and Stephanie make a mean sisterly duo on the hill rally circuit.
  • I guess there was a little too much sisterly rivalry.
  • What of Anni's unsisterly remark, during the European championships, that she, Claudia, had deliberately feigned illness?
  • Bernadette gave him a shy, sisterly kiss.
  • She is not, she says, being unsisterly in her critique. Times, Sunday Times
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  • Her unsisterly sharpness to her youngest sister Amy, for example, causes Amy to burn the volume of tales she had been working on.
  • He was a giving person … the talent that was there and the love that exuberated from him when you were around him is something that will be greatly missed, especially by those like myself and my family who really knew the real Michael. "sisterly gushing didn't stop there. E! Online (US) - Top Stories
  • We haven't had a sisterly get-together for a hundred years or so. SUMMER OF SECRETS
  • She gave Lee a sisterly kiss.
  • I know I should be more patient, more sisterly, more respectful of other people's discoveries.
  • They are twin sisters. They share a sisterly love that runs deeper than blood.
  • The Elle of the first film would have taken her aside to provide a few sisterly fashion tips.
  • Two one-acre plots were sold off to early members of the community who wanted sisterly relations without the constant challenges of communal living.
  • She gave him a sisterly kiss.
  • We share her stress as she prepares for an annual sisterly get-together.
  • Alone in her happiness Constance Asper despatched various brief notes under her gold-symbolled crest to sisterly friends; one to Lady Wathin, containing the, single line: Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • Still, however, he flattered himself that ere long, to her youthful mind and native chearfulness, tranquillity, if not felicity, would imperceptibly return, from such a union for exertion of filial and sisterly duties: that industry would sweeten rest, virtue gild privation, and self-approvance convert every sacrifice into enjoyment. Camilla
  • She actually seems believable when she is being very sisterly with a young coffee vendor, or when she is being pally with the lady constable.
  • Her motivation was not purely sisterly concern.
  • The last of her edgy, perhaps irrational, sisterly trepidation slid away. A RAKE'S VOW
  • The biggest surprise here is "My Girls", a sisterly discoid delight attributed to feminist electropunks Le Tigre, closely followed by "Bobblehead", a diss track co-authored by Santigold. Christina Aguilera: Bionic
  • Depending on your views, she is the most unsisterly brute in the world, or the most honest. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bela clapped Jack on the shoulder in comradely fashion and gave him a sisterly hug. She towered over him, a full head taller.
  • This is unsisterly and unforgivable, and actually counter-productive.
  • Was it unsisterly or unfeminist to work that angle? Times, Sunday Times
  • This is unsisterly and unforgivable, and actually counter-productive.
  • Without being dramatic about it, the story ends on a note of sisterly solidarity.
  • I felt quite sisterly towards him, but I couldn't marry him.
  • Like any adults, we labored under the illusion that our admonishing words brought about brotherly (sisterly) love and peace on earth.
  • Not to mention so unsisterly. The Sun
  • She had determined to try to make good her sisterly shortcomings over the time remaining until Anna's marriage. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • An older, blonde girl, about eight, looks over with sisterly disgust.
  • She poured his coffee and handed it to him in a sisterly way. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
  • sisterly kindness
  • She slung a sisterly arm around her best friend's shoulders, understanding how distraught she was.
  • Serena is torn between her sisterly love and her annoyance with Stella's aggressive insecurity.
  • It's unsisterly, but it happens a lot now. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ihave done quite a lot of driving recently and noticed something that may appear unsisterly. Times, Sunday Times
  • Do not suppose the calculating wretch intended to push the 'flirtation' beyond what he called brotherly and sisterly conduct. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • Alone in her happiness Constance Asper despatched various brief notes under her gold-symbolled crest to sisterly friends; one to Lady Wathin, containing the single line: Diana of the Crossways — Complete
  • The usual explanation for such unsisterly attacks is envy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The hardest thing to understand about Nancy is her unsisterly treatment of Diana.
  • I know I sound unsisterly, but remember, poaching is not the same as, er, sharing.
  • The lead character shows lust only for Olympic glory—the most his self-sacrificing wife gets is a sisterly peck on the cheek.

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