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How to use brother-in-law in a sentence

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Mike picked up the snapshot of the late Mr Piggot, his brother-in-law and the two wives.
So this could include two brothers fighting or a brother-in-law snatching his sister-in-law's purse.
My brother-in-law, my sister's husband, is an American Airlines pilot who flies out of Boston.
I stood in that drive and looked at the palm trees planted on the left, by my brother-in-law and my husband.
His two cousins, two uncles, a brother and a brother-in-law were all killed fighting in Indian Kashmir.
It involved, as we said, the brother-in-law and the brother of the President.
Her husband was away to Ambala, while her brother-in-law and sister-in-law had gone to market.
With his wife and brother-in-law as the shop's operators, Alex is mainly supposed to act as its chief design officer.
Here he received the backing of the duke of Burgundy, his brother-in-law, who was also threatened by a Franco-Lancastrian declaration of war.
The Californian gubernatorial election had just got under way and everyone and their brother-in-law seemed to be running.
However, he had infected his brother-in-law, two nurses in the hospital, and seven guests who had stayed on the same floor of the hotel.
Her brother-in-law, the dashing, doltish Edward, almost brought the house down.
My other sister and brother-in-law have worked hard to provide my kids with distraction and diversion.
And now Edward, in his turn, was compelled to fly from the country, and to take refuge with his brother-in-law, the Duke of Burgundy.
She dedicated her lavish folio volume, in large print, to her brother-in-law, Sir Charles Cavendish, in gratitude.
Stranger still, he was the godfather to Nelson's son, who was now also his brother-in-law.
Its finest moment came when my brother-in-law spoke directly and movingly to his tearing daughter.
Tyler looked over at his best friend and brother-in-law seated on the bar stool to his right.
It seems the porky guard's brother-in-law can pull strings on the parole board, and good boxers can write their ticket to an early parole.
I was always thinking that you were already my brother-in-law, and the idea just tickled me.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He looked dubiously at his brother-in-law, but he did not ask him for information.
He went to Pampeluna to the court of his brother-in-law, the King of Navarre, where he took service as a condottiere.
Mr. Goddard glanced from her to his brother-in-law in unfeigned perplexity.
His brother-in-law paused in the middle of an expatiation on the business opportunities of the neighborhood.
I have a letter from my brother-in-law, Sir Clifford Williams, of Clifford Hall.
But for his brother-in-law he had a house built with huge ovens all round it, that were kept heated all day and night.
He at once betook himself to Huelva, where his brother-in-law resided, with the intention of taking ship to France.
We have also heard him mentioned as a poet and a brother-in-law of Maecenas.
One was the brother of Mynheer Van Ormon, the other was his brother-in-law.
And pray what were either of you doing in Apulia with the brother-in-law of Buonaparte?
Mrs. MacDermott almost shouted the words at her brother-in-law.
And, moreover, his wife was in charge of his brother-in-law.
By chance, however, Bunsen came to Chur on a visit to his brother-in-law, at whose house I first met him.
I went on, however, to my destination and borrowed a dry suit from my brother-in-law.
Dr. Ridley then took off his gown and tippet, and gave them to his brother-in-law, Mr. shipside.
Rev. Benjamin Ogle, Mr. lemen's brother-in-law, and others mentioned this fact in some of their papers and notes.
One day I was conversing with a brother-in-law of mine, Lorin Walker, who married my oldest sister.
General Whipple is my brother-in-law, and he will be p. 281here in a few days and live with us.
The ruler of Northern Siam was Mah-thamma RJ, related to the fourteenth king as son-in-law, and to the last as brother-in-law.
Peggotty derived a steady, though certainly a very moderate income from the bequest of his late brother-in-law, I promised to do so.
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