How to Use father-in-law in a Sentence

father-in-law

noun

• But John was much more to Rip than just his father-in-law.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
• That’s when the father-in-law heard five to six gunshots and then yelling for help, deputies said.
  — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 28 Jan. 2025
• 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
• My father-in-law bought his car in the ’70s and his sister had dinner with Alan and his ex-wife on the night Alan was killed.
  — Zach Baylin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 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
• With any luck, this might be said within your father-in-law’s hearing.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 17 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Lisa Marie is no stranger to the home renovation world where her husband and father-in-law work.
  — Haley Van Horn, People.com, 3 Nov. 2024
• 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
• The 36-year-old shares a three-bedroom house in the Bay Area with his wife, 15-year-old daughter, and father-in-law who has partial paralysis.
  — Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
• The call was from a man in a town from her family’s past, informing her that someone in the United States had something that belonged to her father-in-law, who’d died in 1974.
  — Kevin Chroust, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 12 Mar 2025