cousin

Example Sentences

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"My friend's husband was killed fighting there. The son of my cousin, too. And grandson," says Irina, who has stopped to chat to me opposite the mural.

From BBC

"My sister's husband and my cousins are at the front. In almost every family, someone is fighting."

From BBC

A third cousin, a gospel-of-success evangelical pastor played by Topher Grace, is easy to dislike but a bit more difficult to despise.

From The Wall Street Journal

Genetic evidence suggests they were more distantly related, likely cousins.

From Science Daily

And so Nim went on thinking that Alex Rover was a man, and Alex went on thinking that Nim was a girl at home with her mother and maybe brothers and sisters, cousins and friends.

From Literature