blood relative
Example Sentences
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He says the broker made it appear as if he was donating to someone he was related to by marriage: "Someone who is not a blood relative, but a distant relative".
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2025
Vampire bats are highly social animals, for whom "blood relative" takes on a whole new meaning.
From Salon • Aug. 28, 2022
Crans is adopted, but his mother’s stepfather, Robert Lincoln Beckwith, was the last known blood relative of the Lincoln family.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2021
Why is it that the death of a pet often elicits a far more emotional response in a human than the death of a blood relative?
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2019
We did have one blood relative in Princeton, Dandy’s younger sister, whom we knew as Aunt Sis.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
