How to Use father-in-law in a Sentence

father-in-law

noun
  • My father-in-law recently drove off the side of the road, hit a tree and totaled the car.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Plus, my father-in-law lives alone and has a two-bedroom house.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
  • On the show, Jen says her father-in-law, David Affleck, is the cousin of the famous brothers.
    Angela Andaloro, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024
  • My father-in-law was too busy, so my mother-in-law came alone.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Channing Tatum is sending love to his soon-to-be father-in-law!
    Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2024
  • After the speech concludes, his father-in-law and mother-in-law come up to give him a hug.
    Emi Tuyetnhi Tran, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2023
  • His home is in the names of his wife and father-in-law, and all of his companies are LLCs, which could shield him from claims.
    Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • So, Blanco and his father-in-law trekked on foot, by train, and sometimes by bus.
    Gloria Pazmino, CNN, 15 May 2023
  • What are the chances her series could be aired on the network started by her father-in-law?
    Neda Ulaby, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
  • So do her father-in-law, her brother and her brother-in-law.
    Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Believed to have been owned by the father-in-law of Julius Caesar, the texts were carbonized by the heat of the volcanic debris.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The father-in-law of a friend was a farmer who would drive trash bags full of meat into Boston to sell once a quarter.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2024
  • To the delight and cheers of the crowd, Kylie, 32, laughed it off as did her father-in-law, Ed Kelce, who was seated behind her.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Serve your father-in-law coffee, and whoever else is at the house.
    The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
  • My mother-in-law was there, my mother, my father-in-law.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
  • On that dreadful Monday, March 27th, when six souls lost their lives in the Covenant shooting, my father-in-law called me to break the news.
    Margo Price, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2023
  • There isn't enough time for Forti to pick up Dale, murder him and then meet his father-in-law in 90 minutes.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • No one turns it up higher than Eduardo (Andy Garcia), the father-in-law the nerdy bird’s just met.
    Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Jon Bon Jovi is looking forward to being a father-in-law.
    USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
  • After assisting his father-in-law, Mr. Ford got back in his car with his wife and two young girls.
    Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The house is believed to have been rented by the victim's former father-in-law only a few weeks ago.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Curry’s father-in-law, King Nereus (Dolph Lundgren), not so much.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Hideki Chiba was in the same sports store in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo looking for something for his father-in-law.
    Stephen Wade, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Along with the father-in-law of one of those accused of abuse, they were forced to remain outside until the closing prayer, Choate has said.
    Frank E. Lockwood, arkansasonline.com, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Palmer, a 40-year-old lifelong resident of the Sacramento area, co-owns the place with his father-in-law.
    Michael McGough, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But my family will still come visit, and my father-in-law will cook.
    Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 14 Dec. 2023
  • While his father-in-law slept, Odom drove their rig hundreds of miles; while Odom slept, his father-in-law took the wheel and drove hundreds more.
    Will Swaim, National Review, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The plot concerns a rabbinic prodigy named Nahum, who falls in love with his father-in-law’s young wife and gets her pregnant.
    Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • What our gifter says: My father-in-law—grandpa to 13!—loves wowing the whole family with quirky facts.
    Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The absentee ballot was dropped off by Chip's wife, Becky, on her father-in-law’s behalf.
    Lizzie Hyman, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024

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