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Example sentences for "private families"

  • Many deaconesses were called upon to go out as nurses in private families, and, in order to obtain room to accommodate the added number these services required, it has been necessary to rent an additional house.

  • Soon afterward sisters were sent out to nurse in private families, and in 1839 two more were sent to superintend the workhouse in Frankfort.

  • Deaconesses are constantly in demand to go out in the city as nurses in private families.

  • THE Cook and Housekeeper's Complete & Universal Dictionary Including A system of Modern Cookery in all its various Branches, adapted to the use of Private Families.

  • The practice of brewing malt liquor is but seldom adopted by private families in large towns and cities, owing probably to a want of conveniences for the purpose, and an aversion to the labour and trouble which it might occasion.

  • The melting down of the plate of private families has, upon every occasion, been found a still more insignificant one.

  • They pay for board twenty-one cents per day, in private families.

  • The company have a boarding house under their own supervision, but the women are at liberty to board in private families, and some do.

  • The majority board in private families, the comfort depending generally on the price paid.

  • The cooks who obtain the highest rates, sometimes reaching $20, are employed mostly in hotels or private families, in New York.

  • Ought the right of the elder to be regarded in a nation, where the eldest brother had no advantage in the succession to private families?

  • Ought the right of adoption to be received as equivalent to that of blood in a nation, where it had the same effect in private families, and had already, in two instances, taken place in the public?

  • Concessions, too, are frequently made, and favors bestowed upon them by many of their employers, yet few young girls, and still fewer women are content to work in private families.

  • With such restrictions it is not surprising that the majority of women feel that they are losing "caste" if they accept positions in private families.

  • Considering the many responsible positions waiting to be filled in private families, nothing could be more desirable than to instil into one's employees the ambition to rise.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "private families" 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:
    private affairs; private apartments; private audience; private charity; private citizen; private conversation; private dining; private enterprise; private estate; private families; private hands; private individuals; private interest; private judgment; private letter; private office; private parties; private persons; private residence; private schools; private secretary; private ship; private study; spectrum analysis; territorial government; voluminous writer