1. My mother-in-law has been staying with us this past week and she's driving me crazy.

2. Eleanor would later blame her mother-in-law for her husband'sfrequent absences.

3. Jibes about mothers-in-law were kept out of the script.

4. She is always running down her mother-in-law in public.

5. She has a rather uneasy relationship with her mother-in-law.

6. Poor Ann has the mother-in-law from hell.

7. I'm looking forward to Sunday, the only fly in the ointment being the fact that I shall have to sit next to my mother-in-law.

8. As soon as his mother-in-law arrived, he made himself scarce.

9. I thought I could score some brownie points with my mother-in-law by offering to cook dinner.

10. The mother-in-law ranted at her daughter-in-law about her fondness for eating and aversion to work.

11. Your mother-in-law is no mind reader - tell her how you feel.

12. Her mother-in-law is a timid widow with a dull boyfriend.

13. She made lovely clothes for herself, her mother-in-law, and her daughter, Neraidokoretso,(sentence dictionary) who came along shortly.

14. His wife felt stifled in the presence of her overbearing mother-in-law.

15. Usha says she often investigates the character of mothers-in-law.

16. Take care of your grandma, mother, sisters, mothers-in-law , cousins, girlfriends etc. Our women need more care, not only from the men, but also from the other women.

17. Chinese mothers-in-law to-be, it seems, can be an unforgiving bunch.

18. "I'd never believed stories and jokes about mothers-in-law but my marriage was hell and it was all her fault, " he said after the hearing.

19. From interfering to molly-coddling, mothers-in-law have long been accused of making life a misery. But their daughters-in-law may now be exacting revenge.

20. Mothers-in-law are one of the most common causes of arguments between British couples, a survey has found.

21. Traditional one-liners on racial difference, gender difference and mothers-in-law were out, to be replaced by more nuanced observation or rant.

22. Inevitable: Couples will always argue and mothers-in-law remain a major cause.

23. A similar proportion of mothers-in-law complained they had been isolated and excluded by a female addition to the family.

24. He started the show with a few old gags about mothers-in-law.

25. All nine mothers of the sickly infant girls say they want sons — to look after them when they get old, because their sisters-in-law have more sons, because their mothers-in-law demand male children.

26. Girls are not commonly driven to suicide by implacable mothers-in-law, nor sold into slavery or exchanged for food in time of famine.

27. Sometimes, though, people in America make jokes about others. Mothers-in-law , politicians, teachers and ethnic groups are the target of many jokes.

28. The members of an extended family are related by blood (grandparent, parents, children, brothers, sisters, etc.) or by marriage (husbands, wives, mothers-in-law, etc).

29. In recent years, Indian television has moved on from family dramas revolving around wicked mothers-in-law to social themes like female infanticide, child marriage and poverty.

30. Passed for 34 days, I had discovered a strange phenomenon, daily early morning, mothers-in-law want her son to accompany her to exit extension for a half hour to come back again.