"uncle" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I was going to inherit this great estate from our childless uncle.
- He is also the heir to his childless uncle.
- The children were brought up by their childless uncle, Sir John Norreys.
- Charles succeeded his childless uncle Thomas in 1744 and was succeeded by his brother William in 1753.
- His twice married but childless uncle chose Steuart to be the executor of his will, 1726.
- The childless uncle of the former king was later elected as Charles XIII.
- Although William's fortunes grew with his father's company, he became a truly wealthy man when he inherited the estate, worth around $500,000, of his childless uncle.
- In addition, his ventures into farming proved unprofitable, and he lost an expected inheritance when an elderly childless uncle remarried and had children.
- For the first year of his life, George was the only heir to the German territories of his father and three childless uncles.
- Succeeded on the death of his childless uncle, 17 June 1899.
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