family way

How to use family way in a sentence

• His wife, not less anxious to gratify him in this respect, wrote to him while at sea, that she was in the family way.

  The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 1/2 | Camden Pelham

• The stories got fewer and clearer when it came out that the young woman was in the family way.

  Somehow Good | William de Morgan

• Griffith had observed, at last, what all the females in the house had seen two months ago, that Mrs. Gaunt was in the family way.

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 | Various

• But during her papacy she became in the family way by a familiar.

  Curious Myths of the Middle Ages | Sabine Baring-Gould

• She visited Mrs. M. freely and familiarly in a family way, but would never dine when she had company, nor remain if company came.

  The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson Compiled From Family Letters and Reminiscences | Sarah N. Randolph