"family" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- By sheer force of will, Peacock extricates herself from her fractious family and goes away to college.
- The family of football, often fractious, congregates as one.
- The meeting, which included everyone except Joe Jackson, the father, and Randy, one of the six brothers, was a rare show of unity for the famously fractious family.
- As in any big, fractious family, there are numerous schisms and cliques in this often insular art form, which continues to battle for turf under the wider umbrella of dance.
- His genius in war and diplomacy had gathered the fractious families, clans, and tribes of the Andorayan fjords and islands under one banner for the first time since Neche's Reach.
- The piece suggests an hour or so spent with a fractious yet enduringly serene family of dancers.
- In the great fight scene, which Jerome Robbins turned into a gang rumble in "West Side Story," Miss Martinez Medrano stages a dancing duel between the fractious families.
- In this quasi-biblical ethos, David Ben-Gurion looms as the country's omniscient patriarch who becomes increasingly frustrated trying to control his quarrelsome sons in a bright but fractious family.
- Over the fractious family.
- Her father had been the glue in a fractious family, and his death had scattered them.
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