How to use "uncle" in a sentence

'My uncle is joking, Mr Sampson,' she explained

I see him so often that my uncle calls him my shadow.'

'We are alone, you know - since Margaret died.' Miss Niner looked sad at her uncle's words

Miss Niner began to tell me about her uncle

She was worried about what would happen to her uncle when she died

"I'm no doctor," Bruckster said, "but it sure looks like a heart attack to me, the way he dropped like a stone, same way my uncle Ned went down last Fourth of July right in the middle of the fireworks display."

In each subsequent meeting, one or the other would show up to take story notes on their latest draft, while the missing partner would always have been waylaid by an emergency of one kind or another: a broken washing machine and a flooded laundry room, the sudden-onset illness of a cat with symptoms suggesting (to me) demonic possession, the death of a beloved aunt, the death of a beloved uncle, the death of a beloved neighbor (I began to worry that merely by associating with these women, decades would be shorn from my life span), migraine headaches, and an unfortunate encounter with an angry Big Foot in a long line at the DMV

My father, Joseph, had a brother, my uncle Elias, who went to live in America when he was young

I began to laugh but stopped when I saw my uncle's white face.

"What do you mean, uncle?" I asked.

Who sent it? And why was my uncle so afraid?

But my uncle was very afraid

'When did your uncle get the letter from India, and when did he die?'

'After my uncle's death, my father moved into the house

I remembered my uncle's letter from India, and I was very worried.

I thought it was murder, and I could not forget the five orange pips and the strange letters to my uncle and my father.

'It was with my uncle's papers

Put this paper into your uncle's box, put in a letter which says that your uncle burnt all the other papers, and put the box outside in the garden

Our uncle Frederick Fairlie is a lazy hypochondriac, but he is also our only hope

As soon as Miss Halcombe and my wife are well enough, they'll go to stay with their uncle in Cumberland

I then went to Limmeridge and saw my uncle

He told me that Count Fosco had accompanied the body from London and had gone to the funeral (which my uncle himself had been too ill to go to)

The Count had left a letter for my uncle, telling him that Anne Catherick was back in the asylum, but she now believed that she was Lady Glyde! I left Limmeridge and went to the asylum

We came to Limmeridge and explained everything to my uncle, but he said that I was a fool