How to Use uncle in a Sentence

uncle

noun

• I have three uncles and two aunts.
• My Uncle David is visiting next week.
• Her great-great uncle, David Kalakaua, was the last king.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• The life of a son, a brother, a brother-in-law, and an uncle.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2023
• In 1994, his uncle was killed by the Taliban, who hanged his body from the barrel of a tank.
  — Matthieu Aikins Bryan Denton, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• Fox pulled the 94-pounder aboard with help from his uncles and his father.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• As a boy, Thomas spent countless hours on his uncle’s farm — Grace Acres — and the woods around it.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• My uncle, a chef, often refers to the broth as liquid gold.
  — Isa Zapata, Bon Appétit, 3 Oct. 2023
• His cousins would soon be heading south to spend a week with their uncle.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
• There were no cousins next door, no aunts or uncles in the neighborhood to go to.
  — Souvankham Thammavongsa, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• My uncle plays the piano, and my mother’s cousin sings on the guitar.
  — Zaina Arafat, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• His father and uncle, who learned the art in Mexico in the 1980s, taught him.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2024
• Mando had played the keyboard in his uncles’ band in grade school.
  — Cat Cardenas, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2023
• Then, at around 6:30 A.M., Maram’s uncle Nader comes to our room.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Even his own uncle is expected to take the stand against him.
  — Keegan Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
• Open it and look through it to bug your sister (my uncle) or mother (me).
  — Gisele Grayson, NPR, 23 May 2024
• Karten's uncle, Sharon Edri, was murdered by Hamas in 1996.
  — Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2023
• Set in 1970s Japan, Tomoko is sent to stay with her oddball aunt and uncle in their mansion.
  — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 31 July 2024
• Her mother and several of her uncles all served in the armed forces.
  — Heather L. Whitley, Southern Living, 24 Apr. 2024
• Baldwin visits a graveyard and finds the gravestone of a late uncle, born in 1866.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2024
• My uncle made out worse — he was shot and killed in Mexico.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 15 Oct. 2024
• At The Grand, Luna looked like a proud uncle who wanted to greet every last niece and nephew.
  — Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• Farley, along with his aunt and uncle, came into town Tuesday morning and went to the site of the scene, Greene said.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 22 Aug. 2023
• Her uncle had raised her for the past seven years, referring to her as his daughter in the video.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
• On the parlor walls are a few shreds of old wallpaper, hung there in the 1950s by Gottlieb’s uncle.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 3 Nov. 2022
• Her son’s uncle, however, had to stay for two more days.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
• Then, my mom, sister, stepdad, and uncle all popped out from behind the tree!
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2023
• Four days later, Till was abducted in the middle of the night from his uncle’s home.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
• Four days later, Till was abducted in the middle of the night from his uncle's home.
  — Emily Wagster Pettus, ajc, 22 Oct. 2022
• This was no hardship given that Langdale Chase has the feel of an eccentric uncle's country house.
  — Natasha Langan, theweek, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024