kin

Example Sentences

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How does one go about helping a very elderly man who has only me as his next of kin?

From MarketWatch • Mar. 21, 2026

Identities of the deceased service members will be withheld for 24 hours after next of kin is informed.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026

A local magistrate ordered that the bodies be handed over to the Iranian embassy in Colombo for repatriation to the next of kin.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

I left there that night thinking that even my Newsom kin, the ones who had my best interests at heart, could get it wrong from time to time.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

They were the original dynamic duo: Gilgamesh the demigod warrior king, and Enkidu, the wild man with hair down to his knees and kin to the animals.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda