kinsman

Example Sentences

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But you here, whom nature made the wisest of all people, should drop your anger and make everyone who fights alongside us at sea a kinsman, a citizen.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2025

When Mr. Anderson entered the chapel, which was used as a courtroom to hold all 63 defendants, he shook his head and tried to imagine how his kinsman must have felt in that moment.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2022

But the boy survived, recovered from his wounds, and with a small company headed for Russia, traveled up the Neva River to Lake Ladoga and then on to Kiev, where his kinsman Prince Yaroslav ruled.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021

Helen is related to the Camerons of Glen Nevis: John Cameron, her great, great, great-grandfather, came to Berbice in the early 1800s and set up a plantation with his kinsman Donald Charles Cameron.

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2019

And Aragorn said to Halbarad: ‘What is that that you bear, kinsman?’

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