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Example sentences for "dear uncle"

  • Just now we are irritated with him, for we are all kept on tenterhooks regarding my dear Uncle Roger's Will.

  • MY DEAR UNCLE, Thank you heartily for your kind letter.

  • Thank you again, dear uncle, and God bless you.

  • I knew that when I had my dear Uncle Roger's many millions I should be a rather important person; and, of course, he knew it too.

  • For Mr. Trent, the attorney who regulated my dear uncle's affairs and has possession of the Will, says it is necessary to know where every possible beneficiary is to be found before making the Will public, so we all have to wait.

  • Never, never, dear uncle," said the countess, scarlet with shame.

  • Uncle, dear uncle, leave me one moment with him.

  • What an unexpected honor you confer upon me, my dear uncle!

  • Oh, do not hesitate, go to him, my dear uncle; all may not be so desperate as at this distance we may fancy.

  • Pray do not condemn me as such, my dear uncle; indeed, it is not the case.

  • He would not move, but she would come up to him and say: 'Dear Uncle Jolyon, I am sorry!

  • He heard her say anxiously: "Dear Uncle Jolyon, what is it?

  • Good-bye, dear Uncle Jolyon, you have been so sweet to me.

  • If it will not be too painful to you, my dear uncle, I will most gladly hear it.

  • Could they have done otherwise, my dear uncle?

  • Although I have long been acquainted with the general statement, my dear uncle, respecting the loss of the ship, I have never yet heard any such details as would warrant this apprehension of yours.

  • But, my dear uncle, allowing that my aunt is alive, she was not so young at the time of the wreck as to forget entirely what she had been taught.

  • Dear uncle," said Paula, "Did you read the Book?

  • Oh, dear uncle, surely you wish to serve Him.

  • Please let me have it, I pray you, my dear uncle!

  • But, dear uncle Orrin, there is another difficulty--it is to be a large party and I have not a dress exactly fit.

  • Dear uncle Orrin, how came you to leave me alone in the library?

  • And the story must give him great and fresh pain---- "Dear uncle Rolf!

  • Charlton did not know what he was saying--won't you go, dear uncle Rolf?

  • Suppose, dear uncle, replied Mary Hamilton, 'that this Captain Rowland should sail away and leave us here upon this remote island.

  • So with a laughing countenance he said to the bear, "Behold now, dear uncle, and be careful of yourself, for within this tree is so much honey that it is unmeasurable.

  • My dear uncle, I have been a wild fellow in my day; but with years comes reflection; and under your guidance, if I may hope for it, I trust to grow a wiser and a better man.

  • Let me assist you, dear uncle," said May, taking his hat and returning to help him draw off his coat.

  • I am grieved, dear uncle, to have offended you," began May.

  • Dear uncle," he said, "be seated, and I will explain everything without reserve.

  • And there I might hear something more as to a thing which had troubled me much in the deepest of my own troubles--the melancholy plight of dear Uncle Sam.

  • Whenever I have thought of dear Uncle Sam, I very often go on to think of you, because he is so fond of you.

  • At the open door, with the hot wind tossing worn white curls and parching shriveled cheeks, now wearily raising his battered hat, stood my dear Uncle Sam, the Sawyer.

  • After the first words were exchanged, the grandmother exclaimed: "My dear uncle, what a wonderful residence you have.

  • When she reached the old man, she took both his hands in hers and said: "My dear, dear uncle!

  • My dear uncle, how are we going to manage it?

  • DEAR UNCLE:--I was disappointed at not hearing from you this morning, but conclude you are very busy.

  • Here is the second: "Dear Uncle Jim,--You will want to know about my blackbird.

  • Put a warm brick under my dear uncle's feet!

  • Au contraire, as I find my dear uncle alive, it will be all the easier for him to show himself amiable towards me.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    battle array; became clear; because some; dear abbe; dear baron; dear baroness; dear chap; dear children; dear father; dear friends; dear godmother; dear guardian; dear heart; dear lamb; dear lord; dear maid; dear niece; dear reader; dearest creature; dearest father; dearest papa; father said; fifteen feet; peasant proprietary; science and; sperm whales