Sentence examples for rich aunt from inspiring English sources

Doctor asks him if he has a rich family, rich aunt, or uncle.

"My niece could think of me as her rich aunt," she said.

His allowance, which he receives from a rich aunt, goes mainly on brandy.

He was an intellectual born into the French bourgeoisie, living in part off handouts from his rich aunt.

He was obliged to concoct a story of a "rich aunt" to ally the suspicions of his friends.

Coined "the rich aunt," she took her nieces and nephews on vacations, and brought gifts for every birthday and communion.

By Nika Standen Hazelton The New Yorker, November 29 , 1958P. 112 When the writer was a child in Italy she & her cousin Nicola, went to visit the family's rich Aunt Rosa.

Hugh's younger sister, Dorothy Caroline Martinn), turns down the marriage proposal of the Reverend Gibson (David Tennant), the country vicar chosen for her by the rich maiden aunt (Anna Massey) on whose whims of generosity the family depends.

The movie tends to jerk along rather than flow, and the performances are on the broad side, especially from Angela Lansbury as the rich aristocratic aunt who's compelling Brown into remarrying, and Celia Imrie as the vulgar, rapacious widow determined to become his bride.

Perhaps the future role of para-chan in Japanese society will be as rich maiden aunts.

To Booker, it seemed to be a way to turn everyone into a patrician, the federal government taking the role, when necessary, of a dead, rich great-aunt.