BROTHER in a Sentence

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340 example sentences for BROTHER, such as:

1. My brother is in his thirties.
2. Divide the cake with your brother.
3. My brother and I differ in many ways.
4. My brother is an officer in the Navy.
5. I have received a letter from my brother.

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 Meanings and Examples of BROTHER
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brother
 n.  a man or boy with the same parents as another person
 n.  a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Your affectionate brother, Robert Walton.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 2
2  For my own part, I begin to love him as a brother, and his constant and deep grief fills me with sympathy and compassion.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
3  He is desirous to be a true Swiss and to enter into foreign service, but we cannot part with him, at least until his elder brother returns to us.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
4  Tears, unrestrained, fell from my brother's eyes; a sense of mortal agony crept over my frame.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
5  She most of all," said Ernest, "requires consolation; she accused herself of having caused the death of my brother, and that made her very wretched.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
6  I do not know what you mean," replied my brother, in accents of wonder, "but to us the discovery we have made completes our misery.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
7  It was dawn, and she quitted her asylum, that she might again endeavour to find my brother.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
8  I had hitherto supposed him to be the murderer of my brother, and I eagerly sought a confirmation or denial of this opinion.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
9  Agatha, the ever-gentle Agatha, kissed the hands of the lovely stranger, and pointing to her brother, made signs which appeared to me to mean that he had been sorrowful until she came.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
10  Earl Muldoon, brother to that Muldoon who afterward strangled his wife.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
11  "Speak to the woman, my brother," said Mr. Wilson.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
12  "And there is a weighty import in what my young brother hath spoken," added the Rev.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
13  She could consult with her brother, could receive her sister-in-law on her arrival, and treat her with proper attention; and could strive to rouse her mother to similar exertion, and encourage her to similar forbearance.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
14  For their brother's sake, too, for the sake of his own heart, she rejoiced; and she reproached herself for being unjust to his merit before, in believing him incapable of generosity.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
15  Fortunately he had a younger brother who was more promising.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
Example Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
16  We can live without a brother, but not without a friend.
17  His brother was killed in a shooting incident last year.
18  One brother is a cashier and the other sells.
19  My brother is in his thirties.
20  Divide the cake with your brother.
21  Besides a father she has a younger brother to support.
22  Our baby brother is an addition to our family.
23  My brother and I differ in many ways.
24  My mother made a sketch of my brother reading a book.
25  His brother cuffed him playfully round the head.
26  I have received a letter from my brother.
27  I often dreamed of my younger brother soon after I left home.
28  My brother is an officer in the Navy.
29  You're always mixing me up with my twin brother.
30  When her brother was criticized she leapt to his defence.