(n.) The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of multiple effusions of blood of variable age located at the child's body the stepmother was noticed and accused of assault and battery, but the trial ended in acquittal.
(2) Every now and again, the bin lid came up a tiny bit and then went down again,” says his stepmother, Liz.
(3) Let me know how you get on ... in due course.” His nest had been half empty for a while, in that my mother had died 10 years beforehand, and when I left for university, he was beginning a relationship with the charming woman who became my stepmother.
(4) So they took me in for admission with my stepmother and younger brother who was just about two years old.
(5) Domestic violence also affects children, more than 40% of Indigenous children witnessing violence against their mother or stepmother in the NT, compared with 23% of all children.
(6) Saliu said she fled Nigeria in 2011 after her stepmother told her she would get her oldest daughter, Bassy, cut.
(7) My father and stepmother have said that they could act as a guarantors for the mortgage.
(8) Transposing the Brothers Grimm to 1920s Spain, he doffs his montera not only to European silent cinema of the period, but to bullfighting and flamenco, with an atmospheric Gothic melodrama that has lashings of humour – mostly provided by Maribel Verdú as the social-climbing evil stepmother with a penchant for S&M – bags of invention, and an expressive, flamenco-inflected score by Alfonso de Vilallonga.
(9) First, his lab technician father, followed by his stepmother, his grandmother, two-year-old brother and 13-year-old sister.
(10) Society, in times and places, has seemed to perceive stepmothers in a negative way.
(11) The novelist Martin Amis has given credit for his career in literature: it's not due to his novelist father, Kingsley, but all down to his stepmother, Elizabeth Jane Howard – and Jane Austen .
(12) They had likewise sold my stepmother quite unnecessary insurances, but repaid in full (£750) and sent me a personal cheque of £50 for my trouble and a Christmas hamper to my stepmother."
(13) An impressive case of a 48-year-old woman is reported who after parental divorce when she was two-year-old grew up under a wicked stepmother and developed various obsessive symptoms.
(14) Lee Hunter, Lisa Lees’s brother, wrote on Facebook: “For those who don’t know, Lisa is gone but never, ever forgotten.” Jordan Howe confirmed his stepmother had died.
(15) I don’t know what to do.” Mark Stocker has asked for help in locating his father and stepmother, John and Janet.
(16) Forty-two percent of Indigenous young people report witnessing violence against a mother or stepmother, compared with 23% of all children.
(17) His stepmother, an impassioned national socialist, later encouraged him to join the SS, the Nazi party’s elite paramilitary organisation, rather than the armed forces of the Wehrmacht.
(18) British Gas Several readers had complaints about the energy provider, including Andrew Joslin, who said: "My stepmother is a widow who lives alone 90 miles from me.
(19) They knew it was their fault, because the boy was seen as a collaborator.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Danny Fitzsimons’ father Eric and stepmother Liz are desperate to bring him home.
(20) We really are concerned that wherever he does end up he is safe," said his stepmother.
Stepsister
Definition:
(n.) A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) His stepsister, Carmen Nesnick, told CBS Los Angeles that he travelled to the US as a young boy.
(2) Melissa, Danielle’s oldest daughter, was back in the picture, helping them raise her two young stepsisters.
(3) He was outed only when his stepsister found his diary.
(4) Kim Jong-un also has four step siblings: three stepsisters and one stepbrother.
(5) Gerwig, meanwhile, is ideally cast as glamorous Brooke Cardinas, her putative stepsister, who dreams of writing a hit TV series, or possibly a cabaret, and yet appears to be spinning her wheels as she slides beyond 30.
(6) In the opinion of the project committee, clinical experience should be a primary consideration in the curriculum design process, not merely a stepsister to the cognitive aspects.
(7) My stepsister has not been able to get a British passport so she has not been able to join us here to this day, even when my father passed away.
(8) Lily James , who joined the show as wild child Lady Rose in series three, landed the title role in Disney’s retelling of Cinderella, directed by Sir Kenneth Branagh, which also starred Downton’s Sophie McShera , aka kitchen maid Daisy, as one of the wicked stepsisters.