How to Use brotherly in a Sentence

brotherly

adjective
  • He gave his sister a brotherly hug.
  • He received brotherly support from his fellow priests.
  • At other times there was a brotherly charm to their rhythms.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
  • It's built such a brotherly love and bond between those two.
    — Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • That's brotherly love right there.
    — Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Maybe the only choice left is to appeal to their brotherly bond.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 21 May 2021
  • But when brotherly bragging rights are on the line, there’s no holding back.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 26 Nov. 2024
  • But that once sweet brotherly bond is now in tatters and has been for several years.
    — Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • And of course the relationship was the brotherly type, for good and bad.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The road toward brotherly love, however, is shown to be a bumpy one.
    — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Their brotherly tensions account for one-third of what’s going on in the movie.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The arrival of a new teacher, Lara, tests their brotherly bond.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 21 May 2024
  • There’s an easy, brotherly chemistry between each of them, a cross between a sports team and a boy band.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2025
  • The script had a lot of that [brotherly dynamic] already there.
    — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2025
  • That’s a heck of a brotherly one-two punch, a righty throwing from down under and a lefty throwing from over the top.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2021
  • His message of love and peace and universal brotherly love have inspired and helped so many.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 10 Feb. 2021
  • Click the video below to see a sweet brotherly reunion filled with the kind of hug that comes with happy tears and pure joy.
    — Ronnie Li, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Cal then slowly scooted himself right next to Daisy and slapped a big brotherly kiss on her head.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The fraternal twins are a king and queen whose reign brought sunshine and are teaching the world about brotherly love.
    — Norah O'Donnell, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The brotherly interplay fueled the magic at the front of the stage.
    — Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2022
  • Fieri’s advice comes in the form of tough love, which makes sense for their brotherly relationship.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The band of brotherly musicians is an offshoot of other projects.
    — Vickie Snow Jurkowski, Daily Southtown, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The governor thanked him for his kind words and fired some back in return after some brotherly ribbing.
    — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 25 June 2020
  • In the meantime, there’s a few more brotherly battles to be had on the baseball diamond.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Nikolas Cruz was unable to cope with the brotherly strife that an average boy might have shrugged off.
    — Brittany Wallman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Ross is very close with his brother, Evan, and is grateful his two sons share a similar brotherly bond.
    — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Viewers were obsessed with the brotherly bond between the two pooches, and shared their amusing insights.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Some were brotherly, like with Carl Reiner and Gene Wilder.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The brotherly love is strong in the Kelce and Manning families!
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Express brotherly love in all the right places to successfully blend business with pleasure in the week to come.
    — Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2017

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