How to Use father-in-law in a Sentence

father-in-law

noun
  • Her father-in-law died from grief.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 10 May 2026
  • Fish’s father-in-law hit the nail on the head.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2026
  • There is something wrong with your father-in-law.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Petllon knows his father-in-law was one of the lucky ones.
    — Noel Brennan, CBS News, 25 May 2026
  • My boys hunt, my husband hunts, my father-in-law, etc.
    — Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Plus, my father-in-law lives alone and has a two-bedroom house.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
  • My father-in-law was too busy, so my mother-in-law came alone.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
  • My father-in-law, who had Alzheimer’s, passed away a few years ago.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
  • My father-in-law is on my board, and my wife’s cousin is one of my cofounders.
    — Dustin Lemick, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • That’s when the father-in-law heard five to six gunshots and then yelling for help, deputies said.
    — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 28 Jan. 2025
  • With any luck, this might be said within your father-in-law’s hearing.
    — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Couch’s own father-in-law alerted police to the body.
    — Annie Elming, Cincinnati Enquirer, 16 Jan. 2026
  • But my family will still come visit, and my father-in-law will cook.
    — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Jack Black appeared on a jazz album with his father-in-law.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Serve your father-in-law coffee, and whoever else is at the house.
    — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
  • Channing Tatum is sending love to his soon-to-be father-in-law!
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2024
  • My father-in-law is the king of check-in texts as well as taking and sharing photos.
    — Taylor Fox, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2026
  • My son was about to graduate from high school and my father-in-law was battling melanoma.
    — Lynn Hill, Outside Online, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The approach is to search for his father-in-law’s good intentions.
    — Josh Davis, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • What are the chances her series could be aired on the network started by her father-in-law?
    — Neda Ulaby, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
  • My father-in-law recently drove off the side of the road, hit a tree and totaled the car.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • My younger son's wife, however, never calls her father-in-law or his wife.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The 11 days since his father-in-law’s death have been difficult.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2025
  • After all the presents had been opened, my father-in-law pulled out one last gift—a small, simply wrapped box.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2025
  • After the speech concludes, his father-in-law and mother-in-law come up to give him a hug.
    — Emi Tuyetnhi Tran, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2023
  • So, Blanco and his father-in-law trekked on foot, by train, and sometimes by bus.
    — Gloria Pazmino, CNN, 15 May 2023
  • Still going on ski trips with my brother and my dad and my father-in-law and brother-in-law.
    — Outside Online, 30 July 2025
  • Richard Eastland, her father-in-law, was also killed.
    — CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The next morning my father-in-law knocks on my door telling me that the Yankees are on the phone.
    — Mac Engel august 3, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Aug. 2025
  • But everybody assumed for a long time that my father-in-law was my husband.
    — Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 6 Apr. 2026

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