How to Use nuclear family in a Sentence

nuclear family

noun
  • The rest of my nuclear family would rather keep the peace.
    Ask Amy, oregonlive.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • That end could imply the end of the Duttons or the end of his nuclear family.
    Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 27 Nov. 2022
  • My nuclear family lives in Spain and has lived there for a long time.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 28 Dec. 2020
  • That’s not to say Bruce and Selina need to play at being a nuclear family.
    Richard Newby, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2022
  • When social conservatives tell stories about the way things used to be, the nuclear family is the star of the tale.
    Sarah Jones, New Republic, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Inside the reed walls of each house, a nuclear family cooked and gathered around a central hearth.
    Jude Isabella, Smithsonian, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Aside from the glaring fact that this scheme only works for nuclear family households, the scheme is still deeply flawed.
    Pema Bakshi, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Yet, as Hadley well knows, this search for freedom outside the nuclear family is not new.
    Lauren Leblanc, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The 1950s were an era when home and the nuclear family were seen as sanctuaries.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Nov. 2023
  • As society moves away from the idea of the nuclear family as its bedrock, so do the symbols that used to hold it together.
    Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to man.
    Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • In their ideal society, men are the providers, women are the homemakers and the nuclear family is the holy grail.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 27 Dec. 2022
  • For a clan that pined for travel and events, the county fair was the first mass gathering outside their nuclear family in some time.
    oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The nuclear family was front and center, and people wanted to raise their children in the suburbs.
    Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 12 Apr. 2017
  • The nuclear family is back in style, and, honestly, it’s never looked so good.
    Rihanna, Rocky, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The chess player in my nuclear family is my father, William, who isn’t related to Harold by blood at all.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 13 July 2022
  • The group’s attitude toward the nuclear family has left a long trail.
    Nellie Hermann, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
  • And the notion of what is a family beyond the nuclear family of the Andersons?
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2024
  • Her disdain for the nuclear family is just like Black Lives Matter’s.
    Armond White, National Review, 19 Jan. 2022
  • But don’t break up just because one or both of you don’t see each other fitting into the nuclear family mold.
    Author: Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2021
  • In the role, Dow helped create the archetype of a suburban nuclear family and became a household name to millions of viewers.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 27 July 2022
  • And the sachets were packed in a box with an illustration of a man, woman, and child, a happy (Western-size) nuclear family.
    Erika Fry, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2017
  • For couples who could not have children of their own, adoption was popular and one of the only ways to attain a nuclear family.
    Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
  • And few would focus specifically on the church or the nuclear family.
    David Noonan, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Rain, wind, or shine, outside of an infant’s nuclear family, people should just keep their mouths to themselves.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2022
  • To many people, the image of a nuclear family in a stand-alone house with a green lawn and white picket fence still represents a fulfillment of the American dream.
    Jeff Kruth, Fortune, 6 June 2023
  • Bird's authorial attitude is both sly and sincere, with a view of the nuclear family as the locus of human virtue and strength.
    Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 June 2018
  • The home run version of that dream also includes a happy and intact nuclear family.
    Eric Fuller, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • The challenge in societies built around the nuclear family, as in the United States, is that children might have fewer playmates close to home—turning parents into a default.
    Amanda Ruggeri, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The point is that this this nuclear family of three is spending their last vacation together at their summer home, a charming seaside cottage located some distance from Copenhagen.
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024

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