great-uncles
- plural of great-uncle.
Example Sentences
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Up until three years ago, his parents, grandparents, great-uncles, great-grandparents and his cousin all lived there together.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2023
Mr. Cullinane, a native Washingtonian known as “Cully,” followed his father, two great-uncles and other relatives onto the D.C. force in 1955 following Navy service in the Korean War.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2023
A few years later, while an undergraduate at the Kyiv Institute of Foreign Languages, Kurkov learned he had had two great-uncles who were sent to the Gulag in the 1930s.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2022
“My great-uncles were four-man pilots. My dad was training, he was an Olympic hopeful, in four-man. I don’t know. Maybe it’s just in my DNA.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
Would the older generation of great-aunts and great-uncles think she was a bad mom?
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
