How to use "family" in a sentence

He will probably call my family and they will tell the police that I am missing

I decide it's time to film a message for my family and friends

I feel happy and start thinking of all the wonderful times I've spent with friends and family

Now I realise that my love for friends and family is the main reason I want to escape

I am certain that this will be my last message to my family.

About seventy metres ahead of me are a family of three people - a man, a woman and a young boy

The following weeks were difficult for my family

They killed my friends and family

'I never speak about cats! Our family hates cats! I don't want to hear any more about them.'

I think about having a house and a family and things like that now

His family are worried about him, you see

Born in Limerick, Ireland, she moved to Wales with her family when she was very young

They found him hiding with his family and arrested him on September 10th

He now had five letters, all the work of one author: the man who lived with his family in the next room.

The Jondrette family had been Marius's neighbours for many months, but he had never before paid much attention to them

Only a thin wall separated him from the family of lost souls in the room next door

As Marius was thinking about the sad life of the family in the next room, he stared dreamily at the wall that separated them

The ordinary people liked him at first, but he soon showed that he was more interested in power for his family than democracy for his people

Having been a mayor, he knew how to solve an awkward problem: the question of Cosette's real family He told everybody that he was not her father, but her guardian

He also invented a dead family for Cosette, so that everybody believed she was an orphan

'Besides, I belong to no family

Cosette was the only family I ever had

But only sometimes, because the defendant and the rest of her family, the Lee family, are wild, and he does not want to make her, or them, angry

"All rise!" the court clerk says, and the jury, the lawyers and the family of the defendant all stand

The judge leaves, the jury returns to its room to make a verdict, and the Lee family exit to wait in the lobby.

Not the police, not my mental family..

So you can tell them what you want, but they can do nothing, and you are still here in Bristol, and so is my family

The Lee family is back in the room now, and he looks at them

"There's a family who comes here, maybe three or four times a year

I think she has family here, or maybe she comes from the area

The rest of her family jokingly called it her "Real Space."

It was true, her family was very lucky, and she sometimes forgot that

That was how Sala and her family were able to live in their rooftop apartment.

There was a choice of lifelike views in 3D - not as clever as the illusions in the simulator, but they did help the family to forget, at times, that they lived deep under the ground.

Or your family instead, if you want."

"I wish someone else in your family could do the pod thing," she said

But I'd really miss you - and so would your family..." She bit her lip.

"I'll be doing it for my family," Cham pointed out

She wished she could be with Cham, but his family was in crisis; they all needed him more than she did right now

"What about his family?"

What more could she say? Cham's number one consideration right now was his family, and she couldn't stand in the way of that; but she wished that he would at least think about other possibilities.

"Wage payments will be made to your family

You will also have one Ultranet Talk Hour per week to speak to friends and family

I never want to be separated from my closest family ever again

Sala wished she could see him on her own, but she knew that time with his family was precious

The whole family went to the pod center, with Cham's mom telling his sisters to be brave, and his dad pale and quiet

The only thing that made the time pass more quickly was her family's dream of the world outside

If I find some, I can test them to see if they belong to someone in our family."

"What about his family?" asked Sala

The whole family was there - Cham's parents and both his sisters

She wasn't even sure if his family would give them time alone together - but she'd have to make sure it happened

She watched as the whole family greeted him

Her knees were trembling, but along with Cham's family, she followed Zee through the glass doors.

I have no family and there is nothing else I can do.'

My family always call me Maxim

His family called him Maxim

'I soon get tired of my family,' Maxim said

Besides, living in Sacramento, she wouldn't be a nickel duchess any longer; she wouldn't be anyone special; she would be just another elderly lady, living with her daughter's family, playing grandma, marking time, waiting to die.

Home and family

We have time to start another family

Maybe a large family isn't such a wise idea these days, what with the economy in trouble and all the turmoil in the world

"Don't get mad at me, okay? We both want the same thing - a home life, a good family life

"Yes, you're right, I do want a home life, a satisfying family life

And before you give me any more of that treacly talk about your great love of family, let me remind you that it wasn't me who tore our family apart

But did you ever stop to realize what effect your absences had on Danny? If you loved family life so much, why didn't you spend all those weekends with your son?"

We were talking about family life, about Danny."

Harry Kennebeck had come from a dirt-poor family and, by his own estimation at least, made quite a lot of himself

Alexander, on the other hand, was the scion of a Pennsylvania family that had been wealthy and powerful for a hundred and fifty years, perhaps longer

The whole family was nothing but a bunch of hypocrites

Yet numerous members of the family had secretly rendered service - some of it dirty - to the FBI, the CIA, and various other intelligence and police agencies, often the very same organizations that they publicly criticized and reviled

These diplomatic and intelligence-gathering assignments were never an insult to his family name, but they were always minor postings to embassies in smaller countries like Iceland and Ecuador and Tonga, nothing for which The New York Times would deign to acknowledge his existence.

He could never hope to receive the public acclaim and honor that had been heaped upon other men in his family

What would the elder Alexander's, the famous statesmen, think if they knew he'd soiled his hands with blood? As for the fact that it was sometimes his job to order other men to kill, he supposed his family would understand

In September 1887 my wife was visiting some of her family, so I was staying with my old friend Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street

I talked to him for hours about me, about our boy, about his family, but he did not reply.

And all the time he was keeping a second family - a former servant, and five children! What a terrible shock to his wife and daughter.'

My family demanded a full account of the morning's activities, when I arrived

I thought of Miss Marple's churchwarden with his second secret family

It has taken away our confidence in the future, which was making us soft; it has given great help to science, and it has made us think of human beings as one family.

He told us that Mrs Catherick, Anne's mother, had been a servant in his family for many years before leaving to get married

Tell me his secret, and we'll both get our revenge! He has used you - he, a rich man from an aristocratic family -'

'A very aristocratic family! Especially on his mother's side!' She stopped speaking suddenly, as if she had said something she did not mean to say.

Her family were not rich, but they educated her

In some countries, children have to work to get money for their family.

Harriet was born a slave in Maryland - this means that she and her family were not free

First, she helped her family, and then she helped others

Rigoberta was born in 1959 to a poor K'iche' Maya (Indigenous) family in a small village in Guatemala.

When she was young, she helped with the family's farm work

Sometimes, she worked in the mountains where her family lived

They learned things they needed for family life, like how to cook.

Second-wave feminism was about more than the vote; it was about sexuality, family and work

All over the world, feminists fought to change family laws that gave husbands control over their wives

There were eight children in her family, and, when Nancy was young, they were very poor

Sirimavo came from a rich family, but she always wanted to help the poor people in her country.

Often, women have to choose between having a family and having a career

Her family were athletes, and Billie Jean liked sport, too

Her family were not rich

They are talking about Don Diego Vega and his rich family

Don Carlos is a good friend of Don Diego's family

My father wants me to get married and start a family

"You have a fine family

"This is an honour for our family

He comes from a noble family

The Governor likes his family

This is a big opportunity for our family."

The family is sitting at the table

I come from a good family and I am the Governor's friend

It is dangerous for you and your family to stay at your hacienda

Don Carlos and his family like it.

"I must punish Lolita, her family and Zorro for their insults!" he thinks

I must tell him that Don Carlos Pulido and his family are traitors

He smiles and says, "I want to see the Pulido family in prison!"

Fight me but don't hurt the Pulido family!" says Zorro.

Thank you for the information about the Pulido family

He asks him, "Why is the Pulido family in prison?"

Zorro says, "We are here to rescue Don Pulido and his family

Zorro and The Avengers rescue the Pulido family

Governor, you want to punish the Pulido family

He accuses the Pulido family." Zorro looks at the Captain and says, "Captain, you are a liar but I am here to punish you

Tell the Governor the truth about the Pulido family."