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

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

  • Sethu is engaged to Devi (Parvathi), the daughter of Krishnan Nair (Sankaradi), his maternal uncle.  - Kireedam (1989 film)
  • In the summer of 1935, Briony's maternal cousins, Lola and twins Jackson and Pierrot, visit the family.  - Atonement (novel)
  • The first, Yin Li, is a horribly disfigured girl who is actually his maternal cousin.  - The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber
  • After thinking back to his childhood, he remembers his maternal uncle Zeb Calloway.  - The Big Sky (novel)
  • Fred soon arrives at the counting-house of his miserly maternal uncle, Ebenezer Scrooge.  - A Christmas Carol (1938 film)
  • Graduating would also keep her from being disowned by her wealthy maternal grandfather.  - Errant Story
  • As she nourishes him back to health, she develops a maternal fondness for him.  - Cousin Bette
  • An orphan, she lives with her maternal grandfather (whose name is never revealed) in his shop of odds and ends.  - The Old Curiosity Shop
  • Marcello becomes enraged, telling her that he cannot live with her smothering, maternal love.  - La Dolce Vita
  • On this plot, he allegedly worked with his maternal uncle, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.  - Ramzi Yousef
  • Heidi enthusiastically befriends her new neighbors, young Peter the goatherd, his mother, Bridgget, and his blind maternal grandmother.  - Heidi
  • In Crenshaw, Tre reunites with his friends, Darrin "Doughboy" Baker, Doughboy's maternal half-brother Ricky, and Chris, their mutual friend.  - Boyz n the Hood
  • At the wedding of his maternal uncle Fahro, Malik witnesses his father's affair with a woman pilot.  - When Father Was Away on Business
  • Isis' maternal grandmother, Yolanda, a feisty Texan woman, appears and lends her support to Isis' quest.  - Whit (novel)
  • Lionel and Idris travel through a snowstorm to assist Lucy, but Idris, weak from years of stress and maternal fears, dies along the way.  - The Last Man
  • A maternal line, the Great Family includes every culture, religion, ethnicity, and race.  - The Queen of the Damned

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