Sentence examples for elderly relations from inspiring English sources

They had no experience in management, nor did they have any money, hence the need to borrow from Archie's dad, as well as from Jack's mum's Catholic priest and a variety of other elderly relations.

Hearing about the comments, Nicolai Vorodinov, the steelworker, said after a pause: "Many of us have elderly relations who fought against the Nazis, some of them died; that is the reason we turn up for Victory Day.

There is to be new help for working families, including measures to make it easier for families to pay for child care and college tuition, save for retirement and take care of elderly relations.

In a study that compared the reasons why Japanese and American college graduates leave their jobs, American women cited child care and looking after elderly relations as the main factors.

You can verbally instruct it to take control of internet-controlled smart devices - telling it to turn lights, music and heating on or off - use it as a teaching aid for your children, or take advantage of its health check software to help care for elderly relations.

She avoided answering letters, put off visits to elderly relations whose company she did not enjoy, and talked to people who amused her at official functions while ignoring people of higher standing she found boring.

The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read by Susan Hill 228pp, Chatto & Windus, £10.99 There could be something slightly lowering to the spirits in finding oneself described as "one of Britain's most distinguished and respected writers" in the blurb of a new book, as if one were a prized monument, or long-treasured elderly relation.

And, of course, some people do not seem to be affected at all – everyone seems to have an elderly relation who drank and smoked heavily all their lives, and "it never did them any harm".

"Some people suffer from elderly, boring relations ramming it down their throats, or dubious school productions where they had to play members of the opposite sex.

Born Winifred Marjorie Williams, she became German by adoption after she was sent from a Sussex orphanage to Berlin to be looked after by elderly distant relations named Klindworth.

However, some other studies on the elderly show relations between perceived health and life satisfaction [ 32- 34].