How to Use family in a Sentence

family

1 of 2 noun

• She's a friend of the family.
• The show is fun for the whole family.
• There were a lot of families at the circus.
• She wants to spend more time with her family.
• After his father's death he became the head of the family.
• He spent a quiet evening at home with family.
• He's devoted to his wife and family.
• There are several doctors on his mother's side of the family.
• Again, the fun of card games with family is the back and forth.
  — Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 12 Dec. 2020
• The work kept him away from his family for a week or more.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2022
• His family and friends in the gallery appeared to be in shock.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• Chris used to be the one who checked in on everyone in the family.
  — Jason Armond, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2023
• The family dog was also found shot and killed in the backseat.
  — Fox News, 28 Dec. 2021
• Our thoughts and prayers go out to Don’s family and his many friends.
  — Keith Allen, CNN, 17 June 2023
• Davis then relayed news to the rest of the family and their school colleagues.
  — Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati.com, 11 June 2020
• Please pray for God’s hand to be over all who lost family and friends.
  — Elizabeth Pritchett, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2023
• It’s about the food, family, friends, fun and fireworks.
  — Chuck Fieldman, chicagotribune.com, 18 Feb. 2022
• That’s one great way to avoid calls and texts from family and friends and relieve stress.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 8 Nov. 2022
• The legendary artist and his family are far from the first celebrities to geek out at Swift’s Eras tour.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 25 Nov. 2023
• The two families have been jealous of each other for a long time.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 22 July 2023
• But the food pantry isn't just about serving families in need.
  — Lori Higgins, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2018
• But at the heart of it, there is a family, without question.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 8 Jan. 2023
• Slade spends the most time with the crew’s families and their persistent grief.
  — Craig Fehrman, Outside Online, 16 May 2018
• And so, my mom and sister purchased the same one right then and there on our family ski trip.
  — Michelle Parente, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2024
• Why not stop by with family and friends and enjoy a morning out with the kids.
  — cleveland, 4 Apr. 2022
• Winfield kept in touch with his family all the way up to his final days.
  — Christian Booher, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2021
• The Catton family is uber-wealthy and seems to be living this lush life with their own set of rules.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2024
• The extremes that the families go to to control love and freedom is murder.
  — Ed Meza, Variety, 8 Oct. 2023
• There are three different factions of a family that live in the house, so the parts of the villa were broken up.
  — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2024
• Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is stalked by a dangerous predator.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024

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family

2 of 2 adjective

• Others want to buy a multi-family unit and live in one unit and rent the other.
  — Laura Alamery, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• The blaze is now out in the three-story multi-family building on Sparkle Drive.
  — Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2021
• No one was injured in the blaze, which damaged a multi-family house at 13-15 Brown St. in the city’s South End.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• But it’s the single- and multi-family markets in the city that are the most competitive right now.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2021
• To comply with the Guinness World Records’ rules, Hansen had asked non-family members to witness the event.
  — Michelle Harris, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
• The pro-family component was a $500-a-child tax credit.
  — Scott A. Hodge, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
• The party has been led by non-family members in the past, but Sonia and Rahul have been at the helm of party affairs since 1998.
  — Ashok Sharma, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2022
• The party has been led by non-family members in the past, but Sonia and Rahul Gandhi had been at its helm since 1998.
  — Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2022
• The multi-family home building was a total loss, Flurey said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2021
• But there were scarcely any remarks about the record high multi-family housing starts over the past few months.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2021
• Three of the people who died lived above the third floor of multi-family dwellings, county officials said.
  — Bslovic, oregonlive, 7 Mar. 2023
• But a broader pro-family agenda should be their next goal.
  — New York Times, 7 May 2022
• Nevar said that plans had changed and there is no longer a possibility of multi-family dwellings at the site.
  — cleveland, 29 June 2022
• The party has been led by non-family members in the past, but Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi had been at its helm since 1998.
  — Sheikh Saaliq, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2022
• Builders were issued permits to build just 335 multi-family units, about one-third as many as last year.
  — Jim Buchta, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
• This has occurred prior to the completion of many of those multi-family units.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2022
• According to police, the two victims both lived on the second floor of multi-family home at 67 Franklin Ave.
  — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2022
• Firefighters saw heavy fire and smoke from the windows and roof of a large, four-story, brick, multi-family building.
  — Brook Endale, The Enquirer, 25 Dec. 2021
• Cars then drove through the flood water, creating waves that crashed into the multi-family home, flooding the basement and first floor.
  — CBS News, 3 Sep. 2021
• The fire department said in a press release about Rashid’s arrest that the charges stem from a fire at a multi-family dwelling at 3205 Gobel Ave.
  — Jeanne Houck, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2020
• After all, the jump in new home construction was largely fueled by a rise in multi-family units.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2022
• That was somewhat offset by a 3% rise in multi-family home building.
  — Matt Ott, Star Tribune, 3 Aug. 2020
• The fire took place in a multi-family home in Detroit, allegedly caused by the downstairs tenants' kids lighting up a mattress in the bedroom.
  — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2023
• Rent prices are for units in multi-family properties and based on estimates from CoStar Group.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• While rents are expected to keep rising over the next few months, Ratiu says the rate is likely to moderate as new single and multi-family homes are built.
  — Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 4 Aug. 2021
• The remaining four percent is owned by non-family members.
  — oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2021
• That means that unless a local rule says otherwise, people will not have to stay 6 feet apart from non-family members in public.
  — USA TODAY, 16 June 2020
• The Lyric at Keller Center Stage multi-family complex, and a community lawn that will provide a venue for live music events.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2021
• The proposal is to rezone five of 30acres of land at the northeast corner of Higley and Warner roads for multi-family housing,reducing the amount of the property that would be used for shops.
  — Alison Steinbach, The Arizona Republic, 25 June 2021
• The residence is a multi-family home with five bedrooms and two bathrooms, according to a Zillow listing.
  — Haley Hersey, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024