How to Use auntie in a Sentence

auntie

noun
  • The children were happy to see their Auntie Mary.
  • Maybe auntie has two other kids at home.
    — Nicol Leon, AZCentral.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • There are lots of proud uncles and aunties out there of this song.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Her mom, my first cousin, was always like a cool auntie to me.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • How about a unique gift for Mom or a present for your coolest auntie?
    — Brittany Romano, Glamour, 16 June 2023
  • My mama's got curves, my auntie's got curves.
    — Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Unsafe, all your aunties were un-soft.
    — Taiye Selasi, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
  • He often gets asked by younger fans to talk to their moms and aunties on the phone.
    — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Have a cool auntie who always looks like a walking piece of art?
    — Akili King, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2021
  • So you guys are helping those women that like my auntie was like what?
    — Essence, 7 Dec. 2022
  • So, everybody from your mom and your auntie to your best friends.
    — Tira Urquhart, refinery29.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • My cousin and my auntie now have the same color hair as me and cut all their hair off like me.
    — David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021
  • By the way, don’t worry about your nosey aunties all up in your business.
    — Jasmine Grant, Essence, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Amy’s mom introduced them as cousins or aunties even though most weren’t.
    — Jayme Fraser, USA Today, 16 June 2025
  • Your internet aunties are so proud of you.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Like right now, man, at my auntie’s house with all my little partners in the slums.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2022
  • My auntie Maureen did a painting of my dog and gave it to me.
    — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • My new auntie handed me a bag with a single loaf inside.
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2025
  • South Asian aunties can be unhinged and their comments have left me in shock.
    — Syeda Saad, refinery29.com, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Byrd said Banks was the kind of mom and auntie who always had something planned.
    — Claudia Lauer, ajc, 31 May 2022
  • Matho ends up at an auntie’s house, where a group of other wayward teens are staying.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2023
  • As soon as the shock wore off, his little face grinned—just in time for his auntie to come rip him off the stage by his hand.
    — Brontez Purnell, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2021
  • These are not the same ole Browns that your cousin, sister, auntie or daddy might have howled for.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2020
  • These are our sisters and our mothers and our spouses and our aunties and our daughters.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Oct. 2019
  • When her uncle died, her auntie bought her a City shirt in remembrance of him.
    — Charlotte Harpur, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Dustin had never been to the temple before, so all the aunties were side-eyeing him at first.
    — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Sitting cross-legged on the floor while her scalp was parted and pulled by a cousin, an auntie, someone who loved her.
    — Ruhama Wolle, Vogue, 22 May 2025
  • Youth and elders argued about where to position the grave, aunties and nieces joked around in the kitchen.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The parents, the aunties, and uncles, the ones buying the books, reading to the kids.
    — Bridgette Bartlett Royall, Essence, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Carlton dialed his 15-year-old daughter and asked her to check on her auntie.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2020

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