sisterly

IPA: sˈɪstɝɫi

In the manner of a sister, behaving as one would expect of a sister; as a sister, as sisters.

Examples of "sisterly" in Sentences

A sisterly figure to Haru's party.
The most i see is sisterly affection.
Because that's a sisterly thing to do.
I hope you don't mind the sisterly advice.
She has a big sisterly affection for Skunk.
Soifon only has a sisterly affection for Yoruichi.
There ought to be some kind of sisterly solidarity.
And they're in luck nothing sisterly about that kiss.
Celie and Nettie provide the sisterly relationship in the novel.
Her relationship with Penny could best be described as sisterly.
I think you've begun to feel a kind of sisterly affection for Peter and would like to help him, just as much as I would.
But there was nothing "sisterly" about the message, which urged Sor Juana to giveup writing and devote herself entirely to religion.
And many of us heard that as more than a mere admission — it is a kind of sisterly bonding which often takes the form when said by others of “I hate math.”
However, my younger sister is 18 years younger than me and I hope that when she's slightly older we'll have the kind of sisterly relationship described above.
As a subordinated sex-class, women on The Farm could have brought forth the Mighty Mouse response Stephen desired only if they had forged a more thoroughgoing feminist consciousness, the kind of sisterly, but oppositional solidarity that enabled women at Black Bear Ranch to, in the words of one male resident there, "bust the male work ethic" and negotiate a more equitable sexual division of labor.