What is "stepsister"

Usage examples of "stepsister".

A reporter made contact with her stepsister and learned that she had led a peripatetic life, with Colin often changing jobs.

Or in the reconstituted families after divorce and remarriage, the offenders had their sibling order changed because of the new stepbrothers and stepsisters.

Somehow Sanda knew that Gena was now going to get special attention from her stepsister.

But years of experience told: She kept her voice low enough that her stepsisters, hovering in the hall, barely heard her reply.

It would have been amusing to open that door and see her stepsisters fall in.

Prince holding one of them as though it were a rare rosebud, gazing at her with wide, awed and adoring eyes, while her stepmother and stepsisters stood against the wall gnashing their teeth.

My brothers always picked on me, and my stepsisters always picked on me.

The wedding feast was all finger food, passed around by the four new stepsisters, who had helped their mother make it.

The old fairy-tale theme of the wicked stepmother and stepsisters is relevant here.

Just for a minute, Tania found that she was trembling on the verge of losing her temper and telling him just exactly how disruptive Clarissa was trying to be, and then she recognised that it would be a complete waste of time, that he would be bound to support his stepsister, to encourage her even.

James genuinely loved and cared about his stepsister and that anything that injured Clarissa must also injure him.

Ida Ruth and Jill, like the spiteful stepsisters, were simperingly nice to her in person but talked about her behind her back every chance they could.

After a moment's pause, the voice inside her head added, very formally, I am called Morgana, Queen of Galwyddel and Ynys Manaw, Queen of Gododdin and the Northgales, stepsister to Artorius, the Dux Bellorum, and a healer born to an ancient family of Druidic caste, trained by the Nine Ladies of Ynys Manaw.

And the bride whose pretty white dress her stepsister had so disparaged was making her way on the arm of her groom beneath an archway of roses into the marquee that Nell and her small staff had spent the whole of the previous day putting up and organising.

She had been under a constant strain since her grandfather's death, and although she sympathised with her stepsister, she couldn't stop herself from saying tartly, "You shouldn't sneer at them, Grama, since it's people like the Dobsons who have the commodity you seem to covet.