Below you will find example sentences with "close relatives". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Close Relatives in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: relatives
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 8 start, 6 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "close relatives" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 25.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 60 monkeys close relatives of the, and finally close relatives when lazarus, unrelated, living and four stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with close ally, close contact and close ties, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with close relatives
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Despite their name, raccoon dogs are not close relatives of raccoons. (11 words)
Definitely my family was affected, not my immediate family, but cousins and close relatives. (14 words)
President Irfaan Ali hands over the Golden Arrowhead to Lt Colonel Charles wife, children and close relatives. (17 words)
In the context of his "tales" Heinlein examines the morality of a variety of possible incestuous situations: from unrelated "twins", to unrelated parent-child, to distant relatives, and finally close relatives when Lazarus sleeps with his own mother. (38 words)
Dame Margaret Hodge, who lost close relatives during the Holocaust, warned MPs “the language we use today matters” and criticised those who speak of asylum seekers “invading” Britain, during the annual Holocaust Memorial Day debate. (35 words)
He arranged with the Primate Center of Rio de Janeiro to begin trials of different doses of yellow fever vaccines on about 60 monkeys, close relatives of the tamarins, in January 2018. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
There are four levels of sponsors, according to ORR policy, beginning with parents, then siblings and close relatives, then distant relatives or unrelated adults, and finally willing strangers or agencies.
In the context of his "tales" Heinlein examines the morality of a variety of possible incestuous situations: from unrelated "twins", to unrelated parent-child, to distant relatives, and finally close relatives when Lazarus sleeps with his own mother.
No particularly close relatives of them have been found among comprehensive studies of the living Passeri, though they might be fairly close to some little-studied tropical Asian groups.
And it was not until I lost some close relatives myself, mainly my mother, and since then two sisters; all my aunts are gone now.
Definitely my family was affected, not my immediate family, but cousins and close relatives.
Despite their name, raccoon dogs are not close relatives of raccoons.
He arranged with the Primate Center of Rio de Janeiro to begin trials of different doses of yellow fever vaccines on about 60 monkeys, close relatives of the tamarins, in January 2018.
On its website, the NHS states that organ donations made from living donors lead to a longer life expectancy for the recipient, and are most successful from close relatives.
President Irfaan Ali hands over the Golden Arrowhead to Lt Colonel Charles wife, children and close relatives.
There was relative peace there, close relatives and neighbours, a lack of the conflict some had experienced in their younger lives.
They are close relatives of elephants and can live up to 65 years, but they reproduce slowly.
While the painted hornshark is very similar to its close relatives, the species' egg shells (top) feature distinct differences to those of the zebra bullhead shark (middle) and Pork Jackson shark (bottom).
Behind them are the variants — two close relatives that are descendants of the JN.1 strain that dominated infections this past winter — which make up just over 30% of infections.
Close relatives of the wrasse, parrotfish are abundant in and around the tropical reefs of all the world’s oceans.
Dame Margaret Hodge, who lost close relatives during the Holocaust, warned MPs “the language we use today matters” and criticised those who speak of asylum seekers “invading” Britain, during the annual Holocaust Memorial Day debate.
It is made up of 13 volunteers aged between 18 and 79, ranging from parents or close relatives of children with CHD to retired people living with the condition themselves.
Left to mourn are her sister and brother-in-law, Dona and Daniel Harris, and many close relatives and friends.
Close relatives to the pastor who confirmed the development noted that Omashola, who is also a Public Relations expert was driving alone in a Toyota Camry, when the incident happened.
Hughes had no close relatives and lived alone in Apple Valley with his four cats, Brusseau and Linn said.
If they added more lilac aldehyde -- at levels found in the blunt-leaf orchid's close relatives -- mosquitoes were indifferent or repelled by the scent.