How to Use auntie in a Sentence

auntie

noun

• The children were happy to see their Auntie Mary.
• All this man wants is to lay up with his auntie in peace.
  — Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 7 May 2019
• The parents, the aunties, and uncles, the ones buying the books, reading to the kids.
  — Bridgette Bartlett Royall, Essence, 10 Apr. 2024
• How about a unique gift for Mom or a present for your coolest auntie?
  — Brittany Romano, Glamour, 16 June 2023
• He often gets asked by younger fans to talk to their moms and aunties on the phone.
  — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• Back in high school time, my auntie bought me the album.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2023
• There are lots of proud uncles and aunties out there of this song.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
• Her mom, my first cousin, was always like a cool auntie to me.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• My cousin and my auntie now have the same color hair as me and cut all their hair off like me.
  — David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021
• My auntie Maureen did a painting of my dog and gave it to me.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• Byrd said Banks was the kind of mom and auntie who always had something planned.
  — Claudia Lauer, ajc, 31 May 2022
• The salesman, a tall Korean in his mid-20s, told me all about the auntie who had made it.
  — Monica Kim, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2018
• By the way, don’t worry about your nosey aunties all up in your business.
  — Jasmine Grant, Essence, 5 Sep. 2019
• As soon as the shock wore off, his little face grinned—just in time for his auntie to come rip him off the stage by his hand.
  — Brontez Purnell, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2021
• Like right now, man, at my auntie’s house with all my little partners in the slums.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2022
• Have a cool auntie who always looks like a walking piece of art?
  — Akili King, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2021
• But New Jack Swing didn’t sound like the smooth soul or the digital funk of your aunties and uncles.
  — Stereo Williams, Billboard, 20 June 2018
• In a text, Rose told Dateline that Pearl is an auntie now and that her nephew is waiting to meet her.
  — Kyani Reid, NBC News, 30 May 2022
• Aunt Tina, 58, is the auntie that likes to be noticed and makes sure that everybody does.
  — Houston Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2020
• These are not the same ole Browns that your cousin, sister, auntie or daddy might have howled for.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2020
• So, everybody from your mom and your auntie to your best friends.
  — Tira Urquhart, refinery29.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Youth and elders argued about where to position the grave, aunties and nieces joked around in the kitchen.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• South Asian aunties can be unhinged and their comments have left me in shock.
  — Syeda Saad, refinery29.com, 25 Sep. 2024
• Oddly enough, and funny enough, the nosy aunties, the Native aunties, are always the one that know all the tea.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
• She’s a proud sissy, auntie, God mommy, big cousin, and mentor to a lot of cool kids.
  — Kwentoria A. Williams, Essence, 11 Apr. 2022
• Little guy is so lucky to have these aunties and I’m forever blessed to have their love.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
• So you guys are helping those women that like my auntie was like what?
  — Essence, 7 Dec. 2022
• While the aunties may have shut down the New Orleans streets, the nieces equally took over Essence Festival 2024.
  — Giana Levy, Essence, 10 July 2024
• My auntie Hattie took the reins from my hand and walked Rita toward the stables.
  — Clarkisha Kent, The Root, 11 Mar. 2018
• My auntie and mum had lunch on the 19th, and auntie gave my mum a birthday card to pass along to me (with a gift card inside to my favorite bakery).
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024