How to Use great-aunt in a Sentence

great-aunt

noun

• The call is from her great-aunt.
  — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 2 June 2026
• Our first stop was the home of my great-aunt Leila, a few miles north of Beirut.
  — Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
• My great-aunt and great-uncle had built this house along with my grandfather.
  — Bo Evans, CBS News, 30 June 2026
• The Navajo sought to have the child placed with her great-aunt, who lives on a reservation.
  — Abbie Vansickle, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
• My great-aunt’s screams were so unbearable that others started pulling off her clothes, and with them skin.
  — Maggie Levantovskaya, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2023
• My great-aunt was an AKA, and her chapter also helped raise me.
  — Ebony Flake, Essence, 14 May 2024
• Thompson has a daughter who is being raised by another great-aunt.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
• Marie grew up hearing little about her great-aunt, picking up only a few fragments over the years.
  — Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
• The first thing her great-aunt does upon getting home is to inspect her small backyard herb garden.
  — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 2 June 2026
• In 2016, the younger Kick visited the grave of her great-aunt.
  — Julie Tremaine, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• His grandma, Betty, and his great-aunts, all of whom lived colorful lives.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2024
• As for William, his great-aunt, Princess Margaret, owned a villa there.
  — Eliza Prosperini, Vanity Fair, 7 Aug. 2026
• With the use of a slow shutter speed, Tarantino’s vision of his great-aunt is stilted, fuzzy.
  — David Pisonero Tarantino, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2023
• Nina’s grandmother and great-aunt also died.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 26 May 2026
• Two of her great-aunts worked at the factory, and one of them, Rosie Weiner, died in the fire.
  — Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• In many ways, my great-aunt never recovered from Michele’s passing later that year.
  — Jackie Charniga, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2025
• Sally and Raymond Haik were Dunn’s great-aunt and great-uncle.
  — Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026
• His great-aunt said the incident should serve as a warning about the dangers of the technology.
  — Faiz Siddiqui, Jeremy B. Merrill, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
• The child even asked if her great-aunt had been sketching Taylor Swift, unaware of how long ago the drawings were made.
  — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
• Tanner Horner’s great-aunt took the witness stand briefly to talk about his father’s troubled upbringing.
  — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Apr. 2026
• The defense then called Tanner Horner's great-aunt Dottie; his father was her nephew.
  — Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
• Franklin, 54, was born in Fort Worth and raised by a great-aunt who took him to church every Sunday.
  — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 May 2024
• Tanner's great-aunt also told the court that Terry had multiple children.
  — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
• For the Fourth of July, my great-aunt invited my family over for a cookout.
  — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 20 July 2026
• Back in ’73, Syl had inherited the house, and its problems and its mortgage, from her great-aunt.
  — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
• If only there was a piece of antique furniture from a great-aunt, a Civil War saber from a distant cousin.
  — Lisa Swander, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2024
• My mother, my grandmother and myself watched the game at my great-aunt’s apartment in Washington.
  — Chris Sprow, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2026
• His great-aunt took care of him and his brother until Teetz was forced to separate from his aunt to avoid reentry into the system.
  — Jenna Barackman, Kansas City Star, 21 May 2024
• The sisters also share two older siblings, Ashley and Tevin, who were adopted by their great-aunt.
  — Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 17 July 2024
• The boy's great-aunt, Carla Deliford, also grieved and noted that King was autistic.
  — Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 24 May 2026