6 sentences with 'uncle'
Example sentences and phrases with the word uncle and other words derived from it.
• « Romulus and Remus were discovered by a she-wolf and suckled by her, eventually growing up and taking revenge on their treacherous uncle. »
• « The Umayyads fell from power in 750 because of a revolutionary uprising against their rule led by the Abbasids, a clan descended from Muhammad's uncle. The Abbasids were supported by many non-Arab but Muslim subjects of the caliphate (called mawali) who resented the fact that the Umayyads had always protected the status of Arabs at the expense of non-Arab Muslims in their empire. »
• « In 1852 Louis Napoleon staged a coup d'état and declared himself Emperor of France, as his uncle had done decades earlier. »
• « Marco Polo accompanied his father Nicholas and his uncle Maffeo, who had already visited China some years earlier. »
• « Adults generally considered him puzzling and eccentric; but my uncle fascinated me because he could make a prodigy out of any little thing. »