kin

Example Sentences

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How does one go about helping a very elderly man who has only me as his next of kin?

From MarketWatch

She always called me Russell Culver at school, like we weren’t kin.

From Literature

He turned his ears from the distant howls of the stranger pack: the pack that didn’t sound like strangers any more, but faraway kin ...

From Literature

On behalf of Bosh's next of kin, Mark Stewart KC said: "People might wonder and ask why it is that police officers who are armed do not shoot to injure by shooting an extremity."

From BBC

Identities of the deceased service members will be withheld for 24 hours after next of kin is informed.

From Salon