How to Use nuclear family in a Sentence

nuclear family

noun
  • My nuclear family lives in Spain and has lived there for a long time.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 28 Dec. 2020
  • He was raised kind of running around the streets, not with a nuclear family.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
  • In this case, the one on trial is the nuclear family.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • Go take care of your nuclear family!
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 3 June 2026
  • So if the nuclear family is not for you, what other options are there?
    — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
  • That end could imply the end of the Duttons or the end of his nuclear family.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Inside the reed walls of each house, a nuclear family cooked and gathered around a central hearth.
    — Jude Isabella, Smithsonian, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Aside from the glaring fact that this scheme only works for nuclear family households, the scheme is still deeply flawed.
    — Pema Bakshi, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Every meal for my nuclear family of four provided enough food for eight.
    — Ben Mims, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Yet, as Hadley well knows, this search for freedom outside the nuclear family is not new.
    — Lauren Leblanc, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to man.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • But don’t break up just because one or both of you don’t see each other fitting into the nuclear family mold.
    — Author: Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2021
  • The group’s attitude toward the nuclear family has left a long trail.
    — Nellie Hermann, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Our little nuclear family had become a noisy bunch.
    — Alice Gregory, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
  • That’s not to say Bruce and Selina need to play at being a nuclear family.
    — Richard Newby, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2022
  • As society moves away from the idea of the nuclear family as its bedrock, so do the symbols that used to hold it together.
    — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 28 Feb. 2022
  • My boarding zone got called and this nuclear family that was clearly doing a big trip together closed ranks.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2024
  • When social conservatives tell stories about the way things used to be, the nuclear family is the star of the tale.
    — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Rain, wind, or shine, outside of an infant’s nuclear family, people should just keep their mouths to themselves.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2022
  • For a clan that pined for travel and events, the county fair was the first mass gathering outside their nuclear family in some time.
    — oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The nuclear family was front and center, and people wanted to raise their children in the suburbs.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 12 Apr. 2017
  • Another big reason the nuclear family doesn’t always work is that many women want to work.
    — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The home run version of that dream also includes a happy and intact nuclear family.
    — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • And few would focus specifically on the church or the nuclear family.
    — David Noonan, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2019
  • His unresolved issues from childhood manifest in the need to keep the dream of a nuclear family alive at all costs.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • This story point was inspired by a couple break-ins that Odenkirk’s own nuclear family endured over the years.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
  • In their ideal society, men are the providers, women are the homemakers and the nuclear family is the holy grail.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 27 Dec. 2022
  • With the non-nuclear family more common than ever—who says old customs and conventions need to be followed?
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Women just make too much money and have too much success to need a nuclear family in order to be successful parents.
    — Thessaly La Force, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The grave sites also include features that suggest a strong emphasis on monogamy and the nuclear family.
    — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 29 Apr. 2026

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