relations

Example Sentences

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An email to Gannett's public relation's office with the union's latest concerns did not elicit a response.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2022

Because now, if it all worked out as he hoped, he just might be able to make his poor relation’s impossible dream come true, if only for a moment, before the tragic inevitable occurred.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019

Jones was then taken from prison and led the officers to another relation's memorial, where a smaller stash of gold, jewellery and gems were hidden.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2015

I could weep over the early death of an epigram with a hearty spirit, which is second only to the grief I feel at a good story spoiled for relation's sake.

From From a Girl's Point of View by Bell, Lilian

He means, however, to go this evening to a relation's house, where he thinks he is certain he shall hear of her; and has then promised to come and let me know—But to what purpose?

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas