Wiktionary
n. (maternal uncle English)
Usage examples of "maternal uncles".
Since his uncle was assassinatedthey're heavy on assassination herehis mother and his maternal uncles are the real power behind the throne, and he wouldn't dare go against their wishes.
And because way back years ago one of Leaphorn's maternal uncles had lost a grazing-rights dispute with the councilman over in the Checkerboard Reservation.
Charley saw two of his maternal uncles rush toward the tall round windowless kiva, the ceremonial house, and clamber quickly down the ladder to take refuge within.
At length Dick's two maternal uncles came in, looking grim and wary: tall blond men both, crag-faced, with fierce blue eyes and hairy hands.
He died when Tiffany was fourteen, leaving his fortune, of which she was the sole heiress, in the hands of trustees, and his daughter to the joint guardianship of her two maternal uncles, the younger of these gentlemen having been substituted for the deceased Mr Underhill.
Miller derived a certain sense of security from carrying them, but he knew that a detailed cross-examination about his maternal uncles or the colour of Doctor Lebayon's beard would scupper him, quick.