How to Use nephew in a Sentence

nephew

noun

• Her niece and nephew – six and four – drowned in the river.
  — Swati Gupta, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022
• This year my 6-month-old son and 3-month-old nephew were in the mix.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2022
• One man had a nephew drive in from Louisville to lend a set of hands.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 30 July 2022
• Ariel stood, walked over to his nephew and shook his head.
  — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2024
• The nephew reached for his own copy and began to read aloud.
  — Megan Burrow and Nhung Nguyen, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
• My niece and nephew are no longer in the custody of their father.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2024
• Todd was the nephew of Mary Todd, wife of Abraham Lincoln.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024
• The uncle and nephew's arrests bring the number of Hoosiers charged in the Jan. 6 riot to 18.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Nov. 2022
• Richards’ nephew, Lance Richards, confirmed the death in a Facebook post.
  — Staff and Wire Reports, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
• That's my worst fear, that my little nephew comes back like that.
  — Alan Cohen, NBC News, 27 July 2023
• Her nephew, who was visiting, saw the flames and called 911.
  — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 15 Jan. 2025
• Jake Clemons, the late Clarence Clemons’ nephew, charged up the arena on his solos.
  — Chris Jordan, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
• This time, the mother of five was joined by just Paige, Ladd and nephew Stuart Smith.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
• To be with her and my dad and my brother, all of her friends, my nephews.
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 19 Oct. 2024
• The actor was trying to help his nephew out of the snow near his home in Lake Tahoe when the Sno-Cat crushed him.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023
• Meryl Streep ‘cut a car-sized hole in the fence,’ and fled the Palisades fire through a neighbor’s yard, nephew says.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025
• Welcome to the world and to the family my little nephew.
  — Jamie Ballard, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2023
• Her nephew, who was 8 years old at the time, was also in the home when police shot his aunt.
  — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 15 Dec. 2022
• Hax: How to curb a ‘growing dislike’ of nephew’s new wife?
  — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
• The nephew disavows knowledge of the car bomb but says Carter stole the crypto money from the school.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2022
• At the time, one niece was in college, the other in high school and his nephew was in middle school.
  — Lisa Zobel, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2022
• The result is Pliny the Younger, named after the nephew the elder Pliny adopted and raised.
  — Jay R. Brooks, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
• Renner was trying to help his nephew out of the snow near his home in Lake Tahoe when the Sno-Cat crushed him at the start of the year.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 15 Nov. 2023
• His nephew had called the night before from Boise, Idaho.
  — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 21 Aug. 2022
• My teenage niece and nephew for a long time would just make fun of us by typing out their tap backs.
  — Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
• Zlatko Vujic said his 25-year-old nephew was among those shot dead in Dubona.
  — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• The nephew did not come back and the encounter escalated.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2023
• Another call came from a nephew, who had been at a rave in the desert when dozens of gunmen ringed the site.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
• One of the chefs [the nephew of the head chef Cossu] used to work at Osteria Francescana [see No. 5].
  — Laura May Todd Enea Arienti, New York Times, 17 May 2024
• The show, set in a Chicago record shop, follows the owners, two brothers who are sharing the music of their youth with their nephew.
  — Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 25 Feb 2025