Sentence examples for nephew from inspiring English sources

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nephew

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A son of one's sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either a son of one's brother (fraternal nephew) or a son of one's sister (sororal nephew); a male nibling.

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The nephew, Alfred Lakos, now 77, who lives in the US in Waleska, Georgia, said recently: "She was a hero, in my book".

It tells the story of an unusual woman, a British-educated, divorced Hungarian doctor who held some negative views about Jews but risked her life to hide a Jewish friend, Irene Lakos, and her friend's seven-year-old nephew.

The film attempts to get some things right: its glorious South African locations were filmed by the adventurous director Geoffrey Barkas, and Lobengula is played by Ndaniso Kumala, who was, according to reports at the time, the real Lobengula's nephew.

There is a duel, in which the knight is beheaded by Arthur's nephew, Sir Gawain; he then picks his head up, holds it aloft and promises that the two of them shall meet again.

Speaking to the Guardian after talking to her nephew who works at the hospital, Shalltoot said: "People can't believe this is happening - that a medical hospital was shelled without the briefest warning.

Obama, who is my aunt's fifth great aunt's husband's brother's wife's seventh great nephew, is invited.

There, at 4.15am, Robert Spearritt identified his nephew Adam.

That, in part, led to Nicholas Hildyard's departure in 1997 from the Ecologist, which was then edited for 10 years by Goldsmith's nephew, James's son Zac.

"I heard that someone asked my nephew to tell Mrs Mugabe to leave Harare," Mugabe reportedly told hundreds of cheering young people bussed to Harare airport to welcome him back from China.

By the autumn, violence, arrests and deportations were increasing, and on 17 October Madi came home and found Irene Lakos and her nephew waiting for her.

In 2012, her nephew died in police custody.

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