How to Use stepsister in a Sentence

stepsister

noun
  • There are some new characters, and one of the stepsisters has a streak of nice.
    John Orr, The Mercury News, 17 July 2019
  • The couple met in June 2012 on a blind date in New York arranged by the bride’s stepsister.
    New York Times, 26 Mar. 2017
  • Oslo police said the victim is the 17-year-old stepsister of the suspect.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The pair met through Guyton's best friend, who is Savoy's stepsister.
    Emily Krauser, PEOPLE.com, 30 June 2022
  • Police said a 17-year-old found dead in the suspect’s home was his stepsister.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • In fairy tales, princes are charming and stepsisters are wicked.
    Stmichaelschool, cleveland.com, 24 Jan. 2018
  • A family member said her 72-year-old father and the boyfriend of a stepsister died in the blaze.
    Robert A. Cronkleton and Michelle Smith, kansascity, 26 July 2017
  • Her daughter went to live with the girl’s father and her stepsister adopted her sons, now 12 and 13.
    oregonlive, 9 June 2023
  • The pair met through the actress' best friends, Sara and Erin, who are also Fujikawa's stepsisters.
    Jacklyn Krol, Peoplemag, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The girl was ordered to eat dinner in her room and not allowed to play games or watch movies with her stepsisters.
    Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2018
  • My stepsister and her mom are upset because their young girls won’t be able to come.
    Houston Chronicle, 15 June 2018
  • His cousin and stepsister had also lost their homes, and were now staying wit him, outside the city.
    Ian Lovett, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2017
  • My stepsister-in-law gave me the loveliest little ring dish that has lived next to my bed ever since.
    Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Dawn is survived by her stepsister, Weslee Wells, Boll said.
    Time, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Palm Beach County has been the stepsister waiting its turn.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The police say Lindquist was to let Correa and his stepsister into the home to steal guns in exchange for a payoff in heroin.
    Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 19 May 2021
  • Kimberly Jackson, 38, was on a walk with her stepsister and two daughters near the area where the woman was found.
    Madison Smalstig, The Indianapolis Star, 24 June 2022
  • Twinning in red, sister Zuri Self, 8, and stepsister Brooke Bradley, 9, show off their braids and ballet moves.
    Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 13 May 2018
  • The Holy Family stands watch over him, his stepmother, and his stepsister from a carving on the wall.
    Cincinnati.com, 4 June 2018
  • He was also found with a rosary that his stepsister Trevala Jara gave the group prior to their disappearance, per the AP.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Then Adriana’s stepsister, Tiffany Bañuelos, had the idea that maybe Adriana could do them.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Lucky, along with her stepsister, Kaewmani, used to carry tourists around an elephant park on the island of Phuket in the southern part of the country.
    Muktita Suhartono Ulet Ifansasti, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Cinderella’s stepsisters cut off pieces of their feet to fit into the glass slipper.
    Heather Walter, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The pair initially met through her best friends (and his stepsisters), Erin and Sara Foster, over a decade earlier and had remained friends over the years.
    Ariana Quihuiz, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024
  • Rosie’s stepsister, Raine, is a 14-year-old Chinese crested dog who has been blessed before, partly because of her age and health.
    Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Her foray into the field came from stepsister Lilly, who invited her to be a part of her first daughter's birth.
    Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
  • For six years, Sebastian lived in her 70-year-old stepsister’s living room.
    Charlotte Kramon, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
  • Bloom, then 18, shot his father in the front lawn then went inside the house and shot his stepmother and shot and stabbed his stepsister, prosecutors said.
    NBC News, 22 Apr. 2022
  • He was joined in North Carolina by Ruth Ott, who was his mother’s husband’s daughter, which is to say his stepsister.
    Kerry Howley, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Well perhaps, but her killer hadn't yet been arrested and, according to stepsister Connie Reiss, Mark was on edge.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 20 July 2024

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