How to Use kin in a Sentence

kin

noun
Definition of kinnext
Synonyms for kinnext
  • They are her distant kin.
  • This was one of the last of the elephant kin in North America.
    — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
  • The distance between Prentice and the rest of his kin widened.
    — Nick Alvarez | [email protected], al, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Inquire about the free week of summer camp for your kin.
    — courant.com, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Hence, in our text, theft against a ger results in payment to God, as God is the closest kin of the convert.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 17 May 2021
  • Few will likely miss the lengthened RX that shared a wheelbase with its two-row kin.
    — Nick Kurczewski, Car and Driver, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The gun range shooting has left a mark on both family and friends of the business owner and his kin.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 16 Apr. 2022
  • All else held equal, this variant will have a leg up on its kin, and may outcompete them.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 June 2021
  • In some respects, these women are better able to cope than their male kin.
    — Melissa Chan, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2021
  • This is part of how optimized the Ioniq 6 is compared to its EV kin on the same platform.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 9 Aug. 2023
  • And so it was left to the teenage girl as the next-of-kin to identify her father’s body at the morgue later that afternoon.
    — Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The new frog is quite different in appearance from its kin.
    — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 15 Feb. 2023
  • We, an out and proud gay couple, have been blessed with many friends who have become as dear to us as any blood kin could ever be.
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • With no off-road package and an in-your-face mug that limits its approach angle, the LX lacks the off-road chops of its Toyota kin.
    — Nicholas Wallace, Car and Driver, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Only Frank and Manhog seem truly disturbed by the jivas and their kin.
    — Sam Thielman, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2022
  • In a video posted to Facebook, Sheriff Carmine Marceno said the county was still in the process of notifying next-of-kin of the deceased.
    — Robert Barba, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Subaru's sedan acts too much like its high-riding Outback kin.
    — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The coroner's office will release the person's name once next-of-kin have been identified.
    — Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Rush’s family celebrated in the stands, their kin lifting the Cowboys to 6-1 and a sixth-straight win.
    — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Aligned in various ways against that cynical view are his friends (all men) and his kin (all women).
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • As Sarah etches ink onto the skin of her kin, the moment becomes emotional.
    — Andre Toran, The Courier-Journal, 6 May 2021
  • And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from The Wilmington Gazette, dated 1776, which reports Jamie’s death, along with his kin.
    — Mehera Bonner, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Feb. 2022
  • One child cut out pictures of kids from magazines and presented them as her kin.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The Dead to Me actress later responded with a playful message about their kin.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The names of the three people who died were not disclosed, pending next-of-kin notification.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Kintsugi — pronounced kin-SOO-ghee — was the final facet to the presentation.
    — Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2022
  • How the unfried dumplings and sauerbraten were a taste of German roots for my great-great-grandmother Julia and her kin.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • In the cave’s main gallery, a teenage girl lost a tooth, perhaps while gnawing on bison that her father or his kin had hunted in the sweeping grasslands.
    — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 16 June 2021
  • Each serves as a reminder that although your own kin may be difficult, you at least aren't related to the ones below.
    — Ilana Masad, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2023
  • But the more relevant prospect for unease is the rapport between machines and machines—between the automata of the state and the corporation and their A.I. kin.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023

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