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How to use great-uncle in a sentence

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When she was younger her mother had shown her photographs of her great-uncle and told stories of him.
Gaius Octavius, as Augustus was originally known, was 18 when in 43 BC his great-uncle, the dictator Julius Caesar, was assassinated.
Our team leaderĀ  suffered a stress fracture training for Nijmegen, so she asked us to visit her great-uncle on her behalf.
At the time of the battle of the Somme, exactly 90 years ago, my grandfather and great-uncle were no more.
On a personal note, James McLeish was my great-uncle, and representatives of my family will be present at the service.
Trapped in a haunted room by his great-uncle, the adventurous Titus has asked you to help release him from the magical spell.
Now 71 and a pensioner, Nikolaus has already moved on to his next project: A Romanian translation of another book by his great-uncle.
Maybe we know someone who knew someone who was on Air France 447, or a great-uncle died before we were born and we grew up afraid.
Welcome to the life and times of Bird, Shirley Temple, and your great-uncle Morris.
Adam can list over a dozen relatives who have served in wartime, including his grandfathers Rusty Lee Jones and Jack Coldwell, and a great-uncle who died overseas of malaria.
Born in New York in 1905, he was only nine years old when he began an apprenticeship with great-uncle Ciani, who made violins, mandolins, and flat-top guitars.
This great-niece of General de Gaulle grew up in Paris while her great-uncle was the president of France.
He was spending the summer with his great-uncle and cousins on the outskirts of a down-at-heel Mississippi community inappropriately called Money.
There, they attempt to settle into a very different life with their grandmother, great-uncle and great-aunt and their live-in menagerie.
I have in fact a great-uncle who is buried near to where I live.
His great-uncle, who has never self-identified as gay but who Sam believes is, lives a celibate life committed to the Church.
Rocco received his first instruction from the great-uncle, the archpriest Mezzatesta, and continuing studies at the seminary of Gerace, completing high school in the Philippines in Reggio schools.
Beloved brother-inlaw, uncle, grand-uncle and great-uncle.
The new Princess of Cambridge instantly demoted her uncle Harry, 30, and great-uncle Andrew, 55, in the line of succession to the throne.
Noting his learning ability at an early age, his father, an impecunious furrier, placed him for schooling in the household of a great-uncle, who augmented his income by growing and collecting medicinal herbs.
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Well then, my great-uncle, old Sir William, wished me to have it when I grew up.
He stopped on seeing his great-uncle, and instantly assumed the mask of his smile.
Your uncle, or great-uncle Thomas, started a subscription for a chime of bells.
My great-uncle had particularly declared it should not be divided.
I want to tell you something more about your great-uncle Thomas.
And now to see whether the Moqui will promise to carry it to your great-uncle.
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