sister
noun
a female offspring having both parents in common with another offspring; female sibling.
sisters
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pluralof sister.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Williams lives with her sisters in the bottom unit of her three-family townhouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
They contain multitudes, and so too do the Dashwood sisters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
It was probably a foregone conclusion that the six Mitford sisters would grow up to be women of distinct character, given their idiosyncratic upbringing in the English countryside between the two world wars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Churchill juxtaposes a surreal dinner party featuring famous women from literature, history and myth with a contemporary drama of two sisters who have made starkly different choices with their lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Grimes accused the Fox sisters in a letter printed in the New-York Tribune on July 9, 1850.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
