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Example sentences for "avuncular"

Lexicographically close words:
avoyd; avoyde; avoyding; avril; avulsion; avys; avyse; avysed; avysement
  1. And the boy and I shook hands warmly, and Mr. Brandon bethought himself that that blessed Bella should have the loveliest Easter present the avuncular purse could buy.

  2. In my avuncular capacity I had ventured to say something intended to be arch with regard to those letters.

  3. Yes--" Here George Sea Otter gracefully unburdened himself of a fervent curse directed at Shirley's avuncular relative; whereupon that young lady promptly left the window and heard no more.

  4. Didn't you hear me tell that girl and her villainous avuncular relative last night that I had another ace up my kimono?

  5. The Songkran festival ended over a month ago," said the avuncular stranger.

  6. The tone of voice of this avuncular stranger was grave and his face hardly glanced at them as their barefooted feet ascended into his domain.

  7. He could tell that the avuncular stranger, like them all, just needed a respite from the grave images they were witnessing.

  8. How horrible it was to meet this rich avuncular stranger, he thought to himself.

  9. This avuncular stranger hadn't come for their parents' funeral.

  10. He believed that he was downtown with Noppawan and that they were wasting some time before the meeting with this former avuncular image.

  11. When the young people, so to speak, came to the rescue of the avuncular hulk, it was already beginning to drift into the corner of the harbour devoted to derelicts.

  12. Whereupon he decided to travel, a decision prompted as much by a not unnatural desire to avoid avuncular criticism as by a constitutional yearning for the sunny South.

  13. Your uncle, who holds such a lax view of the avuncular offices?

  14. Such was the artful scheme by which the tyrant originally got possession of the subsequent victim of avuncular cruelty.

  15. It being time for all good little children to be in bed and asleep, Arthur was both at the moment of the avuncular visit.

  16. Meanwhile, it may be mentioned, evil passions surged in the soul of Mr. John Robin Ross-Ellison as he watched the General, and witnessed his avuncular pattings and confidential whisperings.

  17. Clive, in the avuncular gig, is driven over the downs to Brighton to his maternal aunt there; and there he is a king.

  18. Clive had passed the avuncular banking-house in the City, without caring to face his relatives there.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "avuncular" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.