How to Use familial in a Sentence

familial

adjective
  • The company has created a familial atmosphere in its offices.
  • So far, the familial feel of the team has led to success on the mat.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2021
  • To bathe in the familial venom; to feel, once again, the dense mesh of insults and buried love.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Common rooms were small then, but add to the cozy, familial feel.
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • What movie screams more about familial love than this one?
    — Larry Stansbury, Good Housekeeping, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Bedouin tribes with familial ties on both sides of the border control the routes, the report said.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The vibe is more familial than anything, even for the newbies.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Guilbeau’s start in the culinary world is a familial one.
    — Wire Services, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • But that familial tie didn’t extend to Lopez and the network.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 26 July 2022
  • The poems include bloody dramas, familial and cosmic, set in the space of the kitchen.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
  • That is a distorting thing for me, to have familial links to a place that feels foreign.
    — Alaina Wong, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2021
  • The show tells the story of familial bonds and attachments.
    — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2022
  • There are so many familial bonds that are kind of strained and under pressure.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Anyone craving even more familial ties to the movie need only to wait a few episodes.
    — Jesse Hassenger, Chron, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The plot was further thickened by a familial soap opera.
    — Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2021
  • But the most common of those meet ups comes during pregame warmups, when a true glimpse of the familial atmosphere around the team can be seen.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 13 June 2025
  • Part of the pleasure of dining at Margie’s is its earnest lack of frills and its familial atmosphere.
    — The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2021
  • John and Adrianne’s familial harmonies give the songs an extra glow and warmth.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 11 June 2022
  • The whole thing is dark and relentless with plot turns that make this about familial secrets and the bonds of parents and children.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 19 July 2024
  • Reach out to your social and familial networks and find out who your people know.
    — Cherie Kloss, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • His death marks the end of a direct familial link to a president who served before the Civil War.
    — Sophie Clark shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
  • Dozens of shipments were found to have tight familial connections, some of which spanned years.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Something about that small moment that is very familial and sweet.
    — Samantha Allen, Them, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Years after Lawrence was killed, a familial DNA match was found, police said.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Barry Jenkins has said that this movie is very much based on familial bonds.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
  • But Elbaum, who narrates and co-wrote with Grünberg, isn’t the only one in the film with familial ghosts to explore in Lodz.
    — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Find an ideal familial setting at the Brass Lantern Inn.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2024
  • That familial love could so easily turn to hate, but the hate was always there, just like the gun, under the surface, ready to go off.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Disagreements over who gets to keep the family photos can wreak just as much havoc on familial relationships as those over money.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 25 June 2025
  • Set in the 1940s, the film begins with a whirlwind summer romance between the wealthy Allie and working-class Noah — but despite their intense connection, class differences and familial disapproval drive them apart.
    — Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 25 June 2025

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