This page shows Cousin in 20 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like relative or relation. Useful when writing or proofreading a text.
Cousin in a sentence
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Cousin meaning
- Chiefly with a qualifying word: Any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's extended family; a kinsman or kinswoman.
- Preceded by an ordinal number, as first, second, third, etc.: a person descended from a common ancestor by the same number of generations as another person.
Example sentences (20)
Allan said she had received a phone call from her cousin, who said her ex-partner was now with one of her friends.
Cousin Heather's failure to properly count Kevin during the chaotic morning rush contributed to him being forgotten.
After his cousin forced him to leave the cabin, he’d been using a couple of multipurpose rooms as a recording studio.
But Jimmy gave Sikoa the warning that his cousin will chew him up and spit him out when he is done being used by him.
He disclosed that his cousin’s father passed away so she came to live with them (Him and his family) to continue life.
As such, the suspect was arrested, and upon initial questioning, he related the same story he told his cousin.
Going to high school in Mississippi, she missed family members like her cousin who lived near her in Honduras.
All of us carry bits of our own genetic material—both DNA and its more evanescent cousin, RNA—around in our bloodstreams.
Bello has been reportedly slammed for obvious nepotism, with Ododo his mentee alleged to be his first cousin.
Blewitt is a third cousin of President Biden, whose distant ancestors emigrated from County Mayo during the 19th century.
Carbon dioxide is the big climate villain but its lesser-known cousin methane is also a powerful planet-heating pollutant.
Gauahar Khan shared that the actor had attended her cousin’s wedding when she was just around 2-3 years old.
He holds a family baronetcy; that family includes his first cousin once removed, former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron.
ABC11 spoke to a cousin of one of the victims, whom he identified as Alfonso -- though he was known by his nickname: Bread.
A musician from Buckinghamshire has paid tribute to her cousin and his wife after they were shot dead by Hamas gunmen in Israel.
As their journey comes to an end, in a deeply moving meeting, Neil reconnects with his cousin Marilyn.
Her relationship with Coriolanus sours as she watches her cousin rise to power, and she eventually comes to resent President Snow.
He's also the grandson of Greece's late King Constantine II, who was a cousin of's five godparents.
At moments throughout Danny's time in church, he and even his nefarious cousin Isaac () muse over the experience of growing up Korean.
First off, Galadriel was the first cousin of Turgon, who was Elrond's great-grandfather, which made them first cousins thrice removed.
Common combinations with cousin
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- his cousin 37×
- her cousin 27×
- cousin of 23×
- the cousin 15×
- my cousin 14×
- cousin and 13×
- second cousin 7×
- first cousin 7×
- and cousin 7×
- cousin who 6×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word cousin. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.