blood brother
Example Sentences
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“Gangsta Boo was like a sister to me and told the world about me the way my blood brother did,” Drumma Boy said in a statement.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2023
It’s also an origin story for Tomisaburo, or Storm Shadow — the prominent hero/villain and blood brother to Snake Eyes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2021
He feels he must go to save Bon, his blood brother, from dying in what he’s sure will be a suicide mission.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2015
Director Amat Escalante – a more explicitly political blood brother to Mexico's current king of neo-realist weirdness, Carlos Reygadas – has shot a damning indictment of contemporary Mexico, capturing its institutionalised corruption, its endemic cruelty.
From The Guardian • May 16, 2013
“Did you not swear back then, great Odin, that you would drink at a banqueting table only if Loki, your sworn blood brother, drank with you?”
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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