AUNT in a Sentence

aunt

 n.  the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle

1  My aunt observed this, and when Justine was twelve years of age, prevailed on her mother to allow her to live at our house.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

2  My aunt conceived a great attachment for her, by which she was induced to give her an education superior to that which she had at first intended.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

3  Although her disposition was gay and in many respects inconsiderate, yet she paid the greatest attention to every gesture of my aunt.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

4  When my dearest aunt died every one was too much occupied in their own grief to notice poor Justine, who had attended her during her illness with the most anxious affection.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

5  She is very clever and gentle, and extremely pretty; as I mentioned before, her mien and her expression continually remind me of my dear aunt.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

6  Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

7  I remember her aunt very well, Biddy Henshawe; she married a very wealthy man.

Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30

8  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.

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN

9  'He might have done worse,' said my aunt.

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN

10  This was in part confirmed by his aunt, who saw him at half past twelve o'clock, soon after his release, and affirmed that he was then as red as I was.

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN

11  Mr. Chillip was fluttered again, by the extreme severity of my aunt's manner; so he made her a little bow and gave her a little smile, to mollify her.

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN

12  It has since been considered almost a miracle that my aunt didn't shake him, and shake what he had to say, out of him.

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN

13  During the five minutes or so that Mr. Chillip devoted to the delivery of this oration, my aunt eyed him narrowly.

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN

14  Mr. Chillip laid his head a little more on one side, and looked at my aunt like an amiable bird.

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN

15  I inquired about my aunt among the boatmen first, and received various answers.

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION

1  He had a deep affection for his aunt.

2  She had become expert in Chinese cooking under the tuition of her aunt.

3  My aunt made a few pointed remarks about my taste in clothes.

4  My aunt asked me to join in with her on her holidays abroad.

5  His aunt is his legal guardian.

6  Some of my relations, my mother's aunt and uncle, live in America.

7  My aunt always takes her rest at nine.

8  I think my uncle's death was a merciful release for my poor aunt.

9  John's aunt died suddenly and left him a surprisingly large sum.

10  Still, he was sufficiently touched by his aunt's grief too long to rush out from under the bed and overwhelm her with joy--and the theatrical gorgeousness of the thing appealed strongly to his nature, too, but he resisted and lay still.

11  The thought that electricity might be leaking out of the empty light bulb sockets might perturb my aunt.

12  He looked for a good pretext to get out of paying a visit to his aunt.

13  Looking at his great aunt's antique furniture, which must have been cluttering up her attic since the time of Noah's flood, the young heir exclaimed, "Heavens! How positively antediluvian!".

14  He said to himself that he would not speak a word, even when his aunt came in, but would sit perfectly still till she asked who did the mischief; and then he would tell, and there would be nothing so good in the world as to see that pet model "catch it."

15  His aunt wept over him and asked him how he could go and break her old heart so; and finally told him to go on, and ruin himself and bring her gray hairs with sorrow to the grave, for it was no use for her to try any more.