But in her absence it emerged that only one had been: a distant uncle.

Yunnanozoon may be more a distant uncle than a great-grandfather of Homo sapiens.

A distant and austere uncle perhaps, but still a family member.

After their mother died, the sisters left the village to live with a distant uncle.

He seemed to her more like a distant uncle whom "my mother had bragged to all about me."

In 1929, he was briefly deposed and succeeded by Sheikh Mani bin Rashid, a distant uncle.

A necessary set of stripped card decks ($6.50) makes beginners feel as if Houdini were a distant uncle.

He abhors terms like "visitation," which he says reduces the status of fathers to distant uncles with open wallets.

And I told him that technology wasn't mature enough, but he's determined-" "Iones-a distant uncle.

Viola is to get a job in Berkshire as a receptionist for a distant uncle of hers who is a GP there.