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How to use great-aunt in a sentence

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I am due to inherit some sizeable pieces of Georgian furniture and large paintings from a great-aunt.
Now a DNA comparison between the woman he claims is his great-aunt and his own grandfather may finally put the matter beyond all doubt.
Looking at a picture of my great-grandmother and my great-aunt together in 1898, I was compelled to find out more.
You could show the book to your great-aunt Jane and she would think it was lovely.
It is interesting to point out that St. Louis of Toulouse was a nephew of St Louis and of Mary of Hungary whose great-aunt was Saint Elizabeth.
For example, a child's great-aunt would not be referred to as such, but rather referred to as Grandmother.
The suitcase you see on the album cover belonged to a great-aunt of mine who died a long time ago now.
The language skills that helped my great-aunt Anna survive weren't passed down to me.
I have an aunt, a great-aunt and a great-great-grandmother all named Lisa.
The name came from a great-aunt on my mother's side, whom I never knew.
He obtained leave to visit his dying father and then bought himself out of the army with a small legacy from a great-aunt.
He was flying to Washington with his mom to visit a great-aunt.
His sister-in-law, my great-aunt, is the last one left in his generation.
Martin Northmore was my uncle and Miss Martin my great-aunt.
Goodwin says in her own family tree she discovered a great-aunt whose place of birth was the Govan poorhouse, and whose mother's occupation was listed as pauper.
There, they attempt to settle into a very different life with their grandmother, great-uncle and great-aunt and their live-in menagerie.
Devoted aunt, great-aunt and great-great-aunt.
Having rectified that, it's now firmly on my list of places I wouldn't mind living if a hitherto unsuspected wealthy great-aunt died and left me her musty manse.
While her father is off at war and her mother is working in the fish packing plant, Claire, aged seven, is sent to spend the summer with her great-aunt, Tante Marie.
Frédérique tells us the story of how she leaves and goes to stay with her great-aunt Gertrude, who has a strange illness and does some very odd things.
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First I had a stepmother, and then I tried living with a great-aunt, and then I went to work.
Girlie's second great-aunt stayed too, upon urging, and they all talked on and on.
Beloved wife of the late Gordon, a fond sister, a loving aunt, great-aunt, and great great-aunt.
So, in the first throes of her despair, Mrs. Wood wrote those eight not maturely considered pages to the great-aunt.
She might have been my wife or my great-aunt for all he cared.
And you, Girlie, your second great-aunt said that she wanted to believe.
Finished the bottle of great-aunt Paulina's blood tonic this evening.
Did you tell her a man may not fall in love with his great-aunt?
Spring and autumn found Katherine and her great-aunt in London.
Rose knew the sad romance of her life, and it gave a certain tender charm to this great-aunt of hers, whom she already loved.
Armed with this sanction, Wexley called that evening at the Cooper cottage, where Sade kept house for a decrepit great-aunt.
I wonder,' said Peggotty, who was sometimes seized with a fit of wondering on some most unexpected topic, 'what's become of Davy's great-aunt?
Wopsle's great-aunt, who staggered at a boy fortuitously, and pulled his ears.
If she had listened, she might have been amused by the reference to old Lady Barborough, her great-aunt, but, oblivious of her surroundings, she went on reading.
Wopsle's great-aunt successfully overcame that bad habit of living, so highly desirable to be got rid of by some people.
An aunt of my father's, and consequently a great-aunt of mine, of whom I shall have more to relate by and by, was the principal magnate of our family.
The pupils ate apples and put straws down one another's backs, until Mr Wopsle's great-aunt collected her energies, and made an indiscriminate totter at them with a birch-rod.
If I could have associated the thought of such a thing with my preconception of Great-aunt Eliza I could have sworn there was a twinkle in her eye.
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