Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: son-in-law
IPA transcription: [s'ʌnɪnl,ɔ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: son-in-law
    Meaning: the husband of your daughter
Usage examples
  • His wife, daughter, and son-in-law all went out to meet him.
  • The chief ghost said to them, "Now pity this son-in-law of yours.
  • The king was now obliged to have David for a son-in-law. But he hated him as much as ever.
  • On his son-in-law being brought before him, he would not hear a word from him, but ordered him to be put to death.
  • Finally the conversation made an opening for him to say, "I asked your mother, Mona, what she thought of me as a prospective son-in-law."
  • The sultan returned to the palace, and after this went frequently to the window to contemplate and admire the wonderful palace of his son-in-law.
  • The room was the same as before, and everything was unchanged; but his only daughter, the pride of his old days, was no more, and his son-in-law had gone too.
  • We take the 'Leeds Intelligencer,' Tory, and the 'Leeds Mercury,' Whig, edited by Mr. Baines, and his brother, son-in-law, and his two sons, Edward and Talbot.
  • "It's the new setting: of course it shows the stone beautifully, but it looks a little bare to old-fashioned eyes," Mrs. Welland had explained, with a conciliatory side-glance at her future son-in-law.
  • He had married a daughter of the Count di Poppi, who, at the decease of his son-in-law, held the Borgo San Sepolcro, and other fortresses of that district, and while Niccolo lived, governed them in his name.