- a variation of blood relation.
blood relative
Example Sentences
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He says the broker made it appear as if he was donating to someone he was related to by marriage: "Someone who is not a blood relative, but a distant relative".
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2025
It’s for Logan’s Aunt Dana, who was not a blood relative but a close friend of the O’Hoppes, who died in 2015.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2023
Vampire bats are highly social animals, for whom "blood relative" takes on a whole new meaning.
From Salon • Aug. 28, 2022
Crans is adopted, but his mother’s stepfather, Robert Lincoln Beckwith, was the last known blood relative of the Lincoln family.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2021
That would have been unfair—after all, she was no blood relative of Father’s—but perhaps they blamed Mother.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
