cousin

Example Sentences

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My cousin Miguel, who I had met maybe three, four times in my life, had come to Kentucky to make a horse racing movie and he got me a job as an extra.

From Los Angeles Times

Perhaps one of your aunts can host drinks at her house before dinner, and you and your cousins can pick up the bill at the restaurant.

From MarketWatch

I’ve received many letters where the case seems stronger than the one you describe; one reader wrote to say her millionaire cousin’s nursing home coerced her into changing her will and selling her house.

From MarketWatch

It turns out the city’s director of parks, Jason Kronsberg, is my second cousin, whom I arranged to meet for the first time at Waterfront Park.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Unlike our American cousins, we are notoriously bad at talking ourselves up—but the performance … speaks for itself. We expect even greater things to come.”

From Barron's