Sample Sentences forfamilial (auto-selected)
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Aunt Alice didn't take me in out of kindness or familial responsibility.† (source)
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We sensed that we were gathered around the familial table for the last time.† (source)
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The Prince encouraged his colleagues to go ahead and then offered the Count the familial smile.† (source)
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She may lose her job because of familial association with treason.† (source)
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No outsiders could know about the familial strife—with outsiders defined very broadly.† (source)
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She refers to my familial house, one of the oldest and most respected in the Empire, by its formal title.† (source)
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Long-haired, narrow-chested, weedy and thin, he was Yul Brynner's exact opposite in most respects and yet there was also an odd familial resemblance: they had the same sly, watchful quality, amused and a bit cruel, something Mongol or Tatar in the slant of the eyes.† (source)
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We were interlocked, I sensed, through some unseen order in ways I couldn't wholly understand, linked beyond our names, beyond familial ties, as if, together, we completed a puzzle.† (source)
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Though her foster childhood had sensitized her to familial loss, the need to keep her family whole was in her nature from the start.† (source)
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I wanted to savor these moments, of them briefly forgetting their troubles, in shared jokes and familial fondness.† (source)
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Predisposing and Familial Pattern.† (source)
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This building, perched beside and over the water of the Kyo River, and next to the bridge of the same name, contained thirty rooms for thirty patients and their kinsfolk — for, according to Japanese custom, when a person falls sick and goes to a hospital, one or more members of his family go and live there with him, to cook for him, bathe, massage, and read to him, and to offer incessant familial sympathy, without which a Japanese patient would be miserable indeed.† (source)
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had saved them from familial catastrophe!† (source)
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My minimal portion of familial contribution is the weekly grocery shopping.† (source)
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Few seem satisfied with the familial character of their latter years.† (source)
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I greeted her: "Hello, Dolores" (we had long dropped the pretense of familial relationship).† (source)
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