How to Use aunt in a Sentence

aunt

noun

• He has three aunts and two uncles.
• This is my Aunt Mary.
• There's nothing quite like your relationship with an aunt.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2022
• My dad, sister, niece, and the majority of my aunts and uncles are still here.
  — Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
• After her death, Reyes' aunt took her in and raised her while her two brothers moved in with their father.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 26 Aug. 2022
• The woman identified herself as the aunt of Goins’ husband.
  — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Jan. 2025
• One 6-year-old boy told her about fleeing to Germany, where his family stayed with an aunt who had a dog named Daisy.
  — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2022
• In 2018, her aunt, Shonte, confirmed to AL.com that the man offered to give Kierra money to fix her brakes.
  — Charna Flam, People.com, 18 Jan. 2025
• The trailer ends with the huge kicker that Hammer’s aunt, Casey Hammer, will also be featured in the docuseries, speaking out about her own family.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 31 Aug. 2022
• While her great-aunt helped open doors for Black women in aviation, Bessie’s achievements weren’t widely recognized at the time, Gigi Coleman said.
  — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2022
• In his place, his sister Latice Worthy, Chayne's aunt, showed up to not only support her family but to also let others know that her nephew was a good human being.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2022
• Her younger sister, Chantelle (Michele Austin), a hairdresser, is by contrast chatty and warm, with two vivacious daughters who don’t quite understand why their aunt is so sour.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
• This is the person who sent that out of the blue out- of- the blue email to Ria's aunt.
  — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
• In the book, her aunt died, but Stephen knows that’s not true.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 Nov. 2024
• Amos moved to New York City at age 12 to live with an aunt.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
• Michele’s aunt, who is in her 80s, kicked off her heels and headed to the floor.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2022
• The same Ever who’d come for my aunt all those years ago.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2024
• And then my aunt took all four of us, my siblings and I in, and took care of us.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2023
• My aunt grabbed me in her right hand and my brother in her left.
  — John D. Pearse, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2024
• There’s so many threads that get tied up in the aunt and the mother, and part of that is [to] make do and reuse.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 12 Dec. 2024
• She’s like your great aunt on her way to play mini golf.
  — Sarah Fentem, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2022
• His cousins, as well as his uncle and aunt, were among the people that lost their lives in the fire.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
• Out on the deck, James couldn’t help hoping she’d be taken to shore, to her aunt.
  — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
• Then his brother had dropped off González at an aunt’s house to sleep.
  — Kate Linthicum, Keri Blakinger and Connor Sheets, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
• Now is not the time to tell him that his aunt is really his birth mom.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• When their aunt and uncle are over, the kids’ own manners regress.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
• They were both raised by their aunts, not their mothers.
  — Dean Baquet, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
• Maria’s aunt found the apartment door shut, but unlocked.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
• Anything to do with his 80-year-old aunt meant a lot to Behar.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
• Vuitsik’s aunt, cousins, and mother-in-law all made the trek across the border.
  — Tim Rizzo, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 3 Feb 2025