Sentence examples for distant uncle from inspiring English sources

This was a distant uncle, indeed.

there had been a distant uncle who behaved like that".

Save a distant uncle who has died of renal failure, I have had no personal experience of death.

He seemed to her more like a distant uncle whom "my mother had bragged to all about me".

In Florida and many other states, tobacco money has often been used like an inheritance from a distant uncle.

Her distant uncle finds her and adopts her, though her life in St Ives is full of mysteries.

"It was only yesterday," she would cry, "when I could hold you in my hand!" At 21, distant uncles gave you a £10 note in an envelope and slapped you on the shoulder.

In the first three novels in this lively (and surprisingly thoughtful) adventure series, Benn's hero, Lt. Billy Boyle, a rookie Irish cop from South Boston, was still a "rosy-cheeked youth" under the protection of his distant relative, "Uncle Ike," who sent him on exciting secret missions where he made exotic friends.

"I'm a little bit worried, because he's distant," said an uncle, Larry Quinones.

With the tone of a distant if kindly uncle, Mr Putin wrote: "We are by no means indifferent to developments in united Europe".

It was in 1882, the year Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born, that his distant cousin, Alderman Robert B. Roosevelt (uncle of Teddy) proposed the ban on mobile advertising vehicles, which in those days mainly meant horse-drawn wagons.