How to use "avuncular" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "avuncular" in popular movie and book plots

  • The animation begins as avuncular and humorous Professor Toto invites his class to watch a cartoon about a day in the life of a boy named Eric.  - Professor Toto
  • An older officer, the avuncular Lieutenant Osborne (Ian Maclaren), desperately tries to keep Stanhope from cracking.  - Journey's End (1930 film)
  • Marcia Green (Audrey Reid) is a single mom and street vendor barely scraping by even with a financial assist from the seemingly avuncular Larry (Carl Davis), a gun-toting strongman with a twisted desire for Marcia's teenage daughter Tanya (Cherine Anderson) who he then decides to pursue.  - Dancehall Queen
  • It was invented and is "taught" by an avuncular individual known as "The Professor" who is nevertheless seen trying to escape from the Village along the beach at the episode outset.  - The General (The Prisoner)
  • Homer Wells, an orphan, grows up in a Maine orphanage directed by kindly, avuncular dr Wilbur Larch.  - The Cider House Rules (film)
  • The characters of these two plots are surrounded by various "humorous" characters, all in familiar English types: the irascible soldier, country gull, pretentious pot-poets, surly water-bearer, and avuncular judge all make an appearance.  - Every Man in His Humour

Example sentences for "avuncular" in interesting articles

  • He is the one on your left.Imagine having, in your confused adolescence, the friendship of an older, avuncular man who is into computers, a world-traveling photographer who would occasionally head out to, like, videotape the Dalai Lama for a few weeks, then come back and listen to every word you said while you sat on his porch.  - The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing
  • Borsari Jr., an avuncular Washington communications lawyer and retired Army lieutenant colonel.  - The Wrong Man
  • It was 2002, and Banzi, a bearded and avuncular software architect, had been brought on by IDII as an associate professor to promote new ways of doing interactive design—a nascent field sometimes known as physical computing.  - The Making of Arduino
  • It was 2002, and Banzi, a bearded and avuncular software architect, had been brought on by IDII as an associate professor to promote new ways of doing interactive design—a nascent field sometimes known as physical computing.  - The Making of Arduino
  • He greeted well-wishers and acolytes with a wry, avuncular smile, distributing his business card as a priest might hand out alms.  - Y Combinator, Silicon Valleys Start-Up Machine
  • In 2003, when executives met to consider opening engineering offices overseas, Schmidt asked Page how quickly he would like to grow. “How many engineers does Microsoft have?” Page asked. About 25,000, he was told. “We should have a million,” Page said, in all seriousness. At that point, Schmidt put an avuncular hand on Page’s shoulder and brought him back to the real world.  - Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots
  • It’s a stark contrast to the traditional image of a health insurer: a wood-paneled sanctum with actuaries poking at calculators and, in a giant corner office protected by an assistant, an avuncular CEO in a jacket and tasseled loafers (likely a one-time deputy director of HHS).  - Oscar Is Disrupting Health Care in a Hurricane
  • But I doubt those were actually stopped.”Bill Richards, the avuncular Hopkins therapist who knew Leary and has overseen thousands of psychedelic sessions over 50 years, has learned to take the long view.  - Psilocybin shows success in medical trials

Meaning of "avuncular" in English

  • being or relating to an uncle
  • resembling a uncle in kindness or indulgence

Meaning of "avuncular" in Hindi

  • बड़े बूढ़ों जैसा

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