brethren

Example Sentences

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Our chickens, on the other hand, are treated abominably, packed in tightly with their germy brethren, raised in squalor, pumped with hormones, and only made clean at the end.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2026

Yes, the big four—JPMorgan Chase, Goldman, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America—are still formidable, but in many cases they’ve been eclipsed, particularly as compensation-making machines, by their private-market brethren and their multigenerational wealth-creating fee structures.

From Barron's • Dec. 5, 2025

The league, as leagues do, will maintain this is still an emerging business that cannot approach the finances of the NBA and its brethren.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

As Liu learned, if you, a human, eat your distant vegetable brethren, you can get a lot of pipecolic acid in your diet: cucumbers, for example, are high in it.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2025

Aragorn and his knights, and the people of Lórien and of Rivendell, made ready to ride; but Faramir and Imrahil remained at Edoras; and Arwen Evenstar remained also, and she said farewell to her brethren.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien