Example Sentences

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The filmmaker recounts the pleasures of cousinhood and family before the hurricane.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2022

Darwinism insists at best on the distant cousinhood of humanity.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2011

From Cheshire I went to North Wales to pay a visit to our cousinhood at Bodryddan, which had been the home of my grandmother's only brother, the Dean of St. Asaph.

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.

There was that terrible great-aunt at Coucy, and the aunts at Beaulieu and Avranches, and the endless cousinhood stretching as far south as the Nivernais....

From The Path of the King by Buchan, John

All his own relatives, all his wife's relatives, all the relatives of these relatives, to the remotest cousinhood, were quartered on the public treasury.

From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Taylor, Richard