How to Use aunt in a Sentence

aunt

noun
  • He has three aunts and two uncles.
  • This is my Aunt Mary.
  • This is the person who sent that out of the blue out- of- the blue email to Ria's aunt.
    — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
  • In the book, her aunt died, but Stephen knows that’s not true.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 Nov. 2024
  • For a long time, Suzanne Ohlmann’s aunt urged her to write a book.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Amos moved to New York City at age 12 to live with an aunt.
    — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
  • But that home did not take care of all that the aunts needed.
    — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Not just any perm mind you, but a home perm in my aunt’s kitchen.
    — Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2025
  • Michele’s aunt, who is in her 80s, kicked off her heels and headed to the floor.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2022
  • On warm nights, her mom and aunt would sit on the porch talking, and the kids would fall asleep on the lawn.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The same Ever who’d come for my aunt all those years ago.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2024
  • And then my aunt took all four of us, my siblings and I in, and took care of us.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2023
  • In the evenings, her great-aunt taught her to sew, which proved to be life-changing for her.
    — New York Times, 28 July 2022
  • My aunt grabbed me in her right hand and my brother in her left.
    — John D. Pearse, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2024
  • Agir Plus only has a staff car — and sleeps on the linoleum floor of her aunt’s straw shack.
    — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Back in the 1970s, my aunt Caroline and my cousins moved to the island of Kauai.
    — Fox News, 11 June 2022
  • The actors who played my cousins and aunts in the show were all from Jerusalem, Nazareth and Palestine.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Hurst’s mother and aunt watched the hearing via a video feed.
    — oregonlive, 1 June 2022
  • That's where an aunt, or an aunt-like figure, comes in.
    — Annabelle Canela, Parents, 13 Aug. 2025
  • There’s so many threads that get tied up in the aunt and the mother, and part of that is [to] make do and reuse.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 12 Dec. 2024
  • She’s like your great aunt on her way to play mini golf.
    — Sarah Fentem, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2022
  • His cousins, as well as his uncle and aunt, were among the people that lost their lives in the fire.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Out on the deck, James couldn’t help hoping she’d be taken to shore, to her aunt.
    — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Then his brother had dropped off González at an aunt’s house to sleep.
    — Kate Linthicum, Keri Blakinger and Connor Sheets, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
  • Now is not the time to tell him that his aunt is really his birth mom.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Born in Virginia, he was orphaned at age 7 and taken in by his aunt and uncle, who had 13 children of their own.
    — Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 30 June 2026
  • Juan Andrade has been unable to contact his aunt, cousin and their children.
    — Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • Hundreds of comments poured in from others, looking for their parents, children, nieces and nephews, aunts and uncles.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
  • Robbins will play Stone’s father while Spacek will be playing an aunt.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 26 June 2026
  • His aunt Mary Montgomery said he was killed on her birthday.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026

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