FAMILY in a Sentence
Learn FAMILY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for FAMILY, such as:
1. She's struggling to bring up a family alone.
2. I knew his whole family history before he left.
3. A family cannot well be maintained on a smaller.
4. The whole family gathered together at Ray's home.
5. Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old.
2. I knew his whole family history before he left.
3. A family cannot well be maintained on a smaller.
4. The whole family gathered together at Ray's home.
5. Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old.
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Meanings and Examples of FAMILY
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family
n. primary social group; parents and children
n. a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 'No; but I was educated by a French family and understand that language only.
2 I crept into my hovel and remained in silent expectation of the accustomed hour when the family arose.
3 Once commenced, it would quickly be achieved, and I might be restored to my family in peace and happiness.
4 I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic.
5 My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three generations.
6 "I'll tell you a family secret," she whispered enthusiastically.
7 Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old.
8 She was effectually prevented, but she wasn't on speaking terms with her family for several weeks.
9 I knew his whole family history before he left.
10 Let me know about the funeral etc do not know his family at all.
11 The discipline of the family in those days was of a far more rigid kind than now.
12 A family cannot well be maintained on a smaller.
13 But I had no inclination for the law, even in this less abstruse study of it, which my family approved.
14 Sir John wanted the whole family to walk to the Park directly and look at his guests.
15 Her fortune was large, and our family estate much encumbered.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 He was heroized by his family after he made a television address.
2 The whole family was in agreement with her about/on what they should do.
3 She refuses to allow her family to help her as a matter of principle.
4 Almost every family in the country owns a television.
5 Almost every family in the village owns a television.
6 She's struggling to bring up a family alone.
7 The three sons also contribute to the family business.
8 All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
9 He became estranged from his family after the argument.
10 The artist painted on in spite of his family's opposition.
11 The family you came from isn't as important as the family you are going to have.
12 By sighing away for hours, she hoped to attract her family's attention to her suffering.
13 Children from an underprivileged family background are statistically more likely to become involved in crime.
14 The whole family gathered together at Ray's home.
15 That small room contained the sum total of the family's possessions.