fraternal
Example Sentences
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For the brothers involved, doing so would have been a betrayal of fraternal loyalty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
In the official statement, the Palace said "pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and colour memory in ways others do not recognise, even many years after such a loss," the paper reports.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
"The Moon and Earth are more like fraternal twins."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Even more rare is the kind of triplets Craft gave birth to, Passi said: Two of them are identical twins and the third is a fraternal twin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
I wondered if the fact that he was not drinking helped to set him off from his guests, for it seemed to me that he grew more correct as the fraternal hilarity increased.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vocabulary lists containing fraternal
Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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Max in the House of Spies
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