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Example sentences for "her nephew"

  • Hannah was proud of her nephew, and Ishmael was pleased with himself.

  • The thrifty overseer's wife had provided a sumptuous dinner in honor of her nephew's return.

  • And the professor, knowing now that he should have no pleasure in seeing Hannah's delight in her nephew's advancement, since the school plan was nipped in the bud, took up his hat to depart.

  • Soon after that Mrs. Dosett sat down to her desk, and wrote that letter to which the Marchesa had alluded in hers to her nephew.

  • Colonel Stubbs, in his letter to her, had declared that he quite agreed with her views as to matrimony; but she was quite alive to her nephew's sarcasm.

  • She was eminently an intelligent woman, seeing far into character, and she knew pretty well the real condition of her nephew's mind, and could foresee his conduct.

  • Her nephew, though he might in truth agree with her, nevertheless was sarcastic.

  • Appealing to her guests, she had the mortification of finding the opinion of her nephew supported.

  • He lounged out of the room, while Lady Charlotte shrugged her shoulders with a look at her nephew in which there was an irrepressible twinkle.

  • The Leyburns had lunched there, and had been introduced by her to her nephew, and Lady Helen's brother, Mr. Flaxman.

  • Rose felt her color rising, Lady Charlotte glanced at her nephew, the standing group of men cried, 'Speak up!

  • She seemed greatly excited: "I have the money," she said to her nephew.

  • She reflected once more and said to her nephew: "What would you do?

  • Nursed by her nephew, she soon recovered from her wound.

  • All this had been foreseen by her nephew, of course, but his attachment to the place was such that he found ready answers to all objections.

  • Now her eyes rested on the sturdy, strongly-knit figure of her nephew, and it struck her that he bore no resemblance to his tall, handsome father.

  • Unusual and baffling symptoms showed themselves; and after suffering during eight days from alternate acute pain, and heavy, unconquerable drowsiness, she expired in her nephew's arms.

  • He had glanced at that possibility before, and had practically dismissed it on the score of lack of motive, but his sister's story of the differences between Miss Heredith and her nephew's wife supplied that deficiency in a startling degree.

  • Almost as much as the effect of the murder did she fear the result of this second revelation on her nephew.

  • She was above all things practical, and fully realized the folly of brooding over the inevitable, but the marriage of her nephew was a sore point with her.

  • Merrington had this fact in his mind as he interrogated Miss Heredith closely about the circumstances of her nephew's marriage.

  • Her first knowledge of her nephew's intention to marry was contained in a letter written home some four months before, in which he announced his engagement to a young lady engaged in war work in a London Government office.

  • Lady Juliana, too, after the death of her nephew, had one or two attendants out of livery, and in a different fashion from your attire.

  • Accustomed as she was to her nephew's conjuring tricks, this beat everything.

  • Jacqueline looked at her nephew, and was struck by the alteration in his face, visible through the stern mask under which the strong man generally hid his feelings.

  • The seven hundred and thirty thousand francs," said Jacqueline Collin to her nephew, "are quite safe; I gave them to la Romette this morning in a sealed packet.

  • One day in midwinter when sitting in the schoolroom attending to her nephew's lessons, she was informed that Rostov had called.

  • She seems very fond of her nephew Dick, with whom she says she goes about a good deal.

  • I guessed at once that she must have been talking of her nephew.

  • Lady Janet looked at the card, and tossed it indignantly back to her nephew.

  • She went into the library to write a note to her nephew.

  • Lady Janet had written the necessary reply to her nephew, and had returned, faithful to her engagement, to plead the cause of Horace.

  • I was so worried," Aunt Mary said, as she went along the platform hanging on her nephew’s arm.

  • I don’t know," said Aunt Mary, looking at her nephew reflectively.

  • This is my friend Burnett, Aunt Mary," her nephew roared.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "her nephew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    her beauty; her bedroom; her character; her cheeks; her children; her daughter; her feet; her good; her knee; her lap; her last; her own; her person; her room; her sex; her side; her sisters; her tone; her turn; her was; her youth; heraldic term; here shown; hereby know; heroic poem; living rooms