(1) Songwriter Dan Bull urged BBC bosses in Dear Auntie (An Open Letter to the BBC) : "You need to appeal to the people that feel John Peel, and want to keep it real.
(2) Her auntie took care of us; she swiftly and strongly guided us back to the van where she was taken to the medics.
(3) The track I’d play at my auntie’s wedding Thelma Houston: You Used To Hold Me So Tight Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thelma’s got the funk!
(4) Chubby, bright-eyed babies were passed around and distant relatives traced out how they were connected (“I think the brother of your auntie’s husband was married to my cousin’s daughter”).
(5) It's alarming to see the Financial Times leader this week join in with gusto: "It's time to chop up Auntie," it began.
(6) My auntie, who is white, says: ‘They would not do it to their own.’” Yet Jay’s report cast doubt on the idea that perpetrators attacked only white girls.
(7) I wouldn’t see my friends again, or my auntie and cousins, who are my family.
(8) My auntie Nora combined gambling on the Irish sweepstakes with teaching me my catechism for my first Holy Communion.
(9) I wouldn't have minded, but my Auntie Pat had written the exact same thing underneath it three hours earlier.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aunty Dolly Jerome calling for justice for the Bowraville child murder victims during a march on NSW Parliament House.
(11) With bands such as the Banshees and the Bunnymen opting for lavish orchestrations, Bush now seemed less like a throwback to pre-punk times and more like a sort of posh auntie to the goths.
(12) There are a Christian couple who Nazrin Wilkinson, the NHA local campaign manager, said "are lovely: they're like your auntie and uncle".
(13) I know someone who remembers a scene from his childhood when everybody went to his auntie’s house when he was about eight years old.
(14) You know this Auntie will miss you.” Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40 Jorge-Reyes worked as a supervisor at the Gucci store in Orlando.
(15) If she does have any moments of weakness now, there’s always Auntie Sarah Millican to call upon.
(16) Then 16 more people, including dear Aunty, became ill and, when tested, were confirmed Ebola positive.
(17) Although it did pop up again off-Broadway, on ABC2, as rolling news of the prime minister’s demise took over Aunty’s main channel for the night.
(18) David Cameron's mother signs petition against cuts to children's services Read more But Mary Cameron’s protest – her sister, Cameron’s Auntie Clare has also publicly declared the cuts to be a “ great, great error ” – symbolises something much more significant: that there is now almost open revolt against local government cuts among Tory councils, and increasingly, Tory MPs, particularly in rural areas.
(19) She was coming from Nigeria to stay with an “auntie” – actually a family friend.
(20) From 1 October, the surviving spouse will receive the whole lot, and parents and long-lost aunties won’t see a penny.
Uncle
Definition:
(n.) The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship.
(n.) A pawnbroker.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
(2) At a home less than a block away, a man identifying himself as Tamir’s uncle said the boy’s family was not commenting and referred reporters to an attorney.
(3) His maternal uncle is severely retarded and has similar dysmorphic facies.
(4) Acquaintance with a teenaged girl of roughly qualifying age is not essential, but probably helpful, when it comes to appreciating the degree to which Uncle Rupert's views on women, as still reflected in Page 3 , have not progressed since his executives started perving over snaps of their favourite teens.
(5) The ibd for grandparent-grandchild pairs is least affected by recombination, followed by sibs, half-sib, uncle-nephew, and first-cousin pairs.
(6) Another of Milosevic's favourite uncles also killed himself.
(7) I can’t,” says sufi pop singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, comparing himself unfavourably to his uncle, the late Pakistani superstar Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan .
(8) He lost contact with his father, a lorry driver, for several years, but says that his mother - aided by his uncle - made it her mission to shield him from the crime and disorder around them.
(9) Marcel's wife, Gertrude, and four children were taken in by Muamba's uncle.
(10) That was one of the advantages of having a gay "uncle" – he took me to gigs.
(11) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
(12) Evaluation of family members for presence of the urinary inhibitor factor for thiamine diphosphate phosphoryl transferase revealed abnormal levels in a brother, a maternal uncle, and the maternal grandfather of the patient.
(13) Paul Pogba’s Mr 10% has said that, despite reports linking him to Real Madrid, PSG, Chelsea and Uncle Tom Cobley FC, his client will be staying at Juventus.
(14) Still, he won the vote on a platform against corruption and thousands of cheering supporters welcomed “Uncle Jona” into office.
(15) I'll try to visit Jeffrey when I can and if I have kids in the future I'll tell them the whole story, and I hope that I can introduce them to Jeffrey and their aunts and uncles.
(16) An uncle of one of the crew members from the El Faro says the ship was equipped with modern lifeboats.
(17) And at the same time, speaking to black America, he branded Frazier an Uncle Tom, turning him into an object of derision and scorn.
(18) I had all these brothers and uncles so I understood the nature of men and I didn't go in there feeling all intimidated.
(19) In a four-generation family, chondrodysplasia punctata was found in a boy and one of his maternal uncles.
(20) Alas, Charles could not, any more than his great Uncle Edward VIII in 1936 , take the salary with him on emigration; the duchy is public property.