How to Use aunt in a Sentence

aunt

noun

• He has three aunts and two uncles.
• This is my Aunt Mary.
• Her uncle and aunt were looking for an apprentice and thought of her.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 7 Dec. 2022
• Carter’s aunt Doris Blank is a boarding school survivor.
  — Melissa Olson, Twin Cities, 28 Oct. 2024
• The woman turned to her mother and aunt for help cleaning up her credit and stopping the fraud.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2022
• The boy never cried or showed remorse about his mother’s death, his aunt and sister told police.
  — Elliot Hughes, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
• One of the photos, taken just after the war ended, included her aunt and two cousins.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
• Melanie’s aunt, Gladys Manriques, said during Wednesday’s news conference.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• That same morning, the boy's aunt took him to his grandmother's house to meet with Child Protective Services workers.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2022
• His aunt, Alline Bullock, Tina Turner’s sister, passed away in 2010.
  — Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2022
• Following her mother's death, she and her five siblings were sent to different homes and Francis ended up in Houston, where she was raised by her aunt.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
• On a hot September day in Long Beach, Maea’s mother, little sister, two brothers and aunt sat in the frontyard of her mother’s home with palms in hand.
  — Samanta Helou Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Amos moved to New York City at age 12 to live with an aunt.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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
• The house is where an aunt of the man from the mother's relationship lived.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 29 May 2023
• Rosie is the aunt of Wordlaw and Sherica is the cousin of Wordlaw.
  — Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2024
• The 6-year-old ran to the front of the building and told her aunt what happened, according to the affidavit.
  — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 12 July 2023
• In a separate panel to the left, Joseph stands at the foot of the bed, looking at her mother and aunt.
  — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023
• Like her aunt, the teen wore a pair of eye-catching statement earrings.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024