"uncle" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

uncle sustantivo

sustantivo + uncle
Kolokacji: 3
uncle of the bride • uncle of the bridegroom • bachelor uncle
uncle + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 102
Uncle Sam • Uncle Tom • Uncle John • Uncle Ben • Uncle Joe • ...
uncle + verbo
Kolokacji: 61
uncle says • uncle dies • uncle takes • uncle tells • raised by one's uncle • ...
verbo + uncle
Kolokacji: 32
live with one's uncle • kill one's uncle • see one's uncle • tell one's uncle • inherit from one's uncle • ...
adjetivo + uncle
Kolokacji: 33
maternal uncle • paternal uncle • great uncle • old uncle • rich uncle • ...
(5) favorite, beloved
Kolokacji: 2
(6) late, deceased, dead
Kolokacji: 3
(7) loving, Devoted, doting
Kolokacji: 3
1. loving uncle = kochając wuja loving uncle
2. Devoted uncle = Oddany wuj Devoted uncle
3. doting uncle = hołubiący wuj doting uncle
  • Move out here, be her doting uncle all the time.
  • McAteer smiled at her, doing his best impression of a doting uncle.
  • In reply Hashi gave her his most amiable grin-the one which made him resemble a doting uncle, cheerful and slightly mad.
  • These days, jazz is more like a doting uncle, ready to baby-sit and play his favorite tunes for your children.
  • To compensate for the lack of his own children, he became a doting uncle, showering gifts on his nieces and nephews.
  • Like a doting uncle, Anderson has become their on-the-field critic and off-the-field mentor.
  • He tugged the Duo's door open and smiled affectionately, like a doting uncle.
  • Nath's film Vivah was very successful at the box office and his performance as a doting uncle was praised by critics.
  • The company's principal founder a century ago, George Eastman, had no children and instead nurtured Rochester like a doting uncle.
  • He later proves an engaging and fondly doting uncle to "John-john" Ryder.
(8) wicked, evil
Kolokacji: 2
(9) long-lost, benevolent
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + uncle
Kolokacji: 17
of one's uncle • with one's uncle • to one's uncle • from one's uncle • for one's uncle • ...

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