cousin
Example Sentences
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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.
“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
My mom also took in many children and relatives when things weren’t going well at home; one cousin stayed for two years recovering from hepatitis.
She watched from her hospital bed as her mother’s cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was confirmed as U.S. health secretary.
Florida and Texas have already become economic powerhouses, but if Mr. Carswell has anything to say about it, poor cousin Mississippi will join them.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
