When the economy faltered, Uncle Sam stepped in with a large stimulus package.

My grand-uncle taught me how to carve wooden figurines every summer.

My maternal uncle taught me how to fix bicycles when I was a child.

My paternal uncle taught me how to fish when I was a child.

I discovered that my half-uncle had served in the navy before I was born.

My great-uncle taught me how to carve wooden spoons when I was a child.

When the start-up founders became complacent, their mentors acted as Dutch uncles and gave them some hard truths.

When my sister kept making the same mistakes, our father played the Dutch uncle and gave her the stern reprimand she needed.

At the family reunion, my cousin-uncle shared old photographs and taught me how to make our ancestral soup.

After ten rounds of tickling, Jenna finally had to say uncle.