Example Sentences

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She exchanged postcards with former sisters-in-law and her first husband’s second wife.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2025

"My father, my brother, my sisters-in-law and my friends are gone," says Delfino.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2025

Still, she and her husband and brothers- and sisters-in-law believed that God had a plan for them, even now, she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2023

Stuck, uncomfortably, in the middle, is Sasha, the middle-class New England girl who has married their brother, Cord, and, despite all signs to the contrary, is referred to as “the Gold Digger” by her sisters-in-law.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2023

Patti starts pointing out faces and naming my father's cousins and their sisters and sisters-in-law and brothers and brothers-in-law.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman