relatives

Example Sentences

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Both missions combine into one, with the wrinkle that Rotta doesn’t want to be returned to his relatives, whom he expects will kill him because he could potentially usurp them.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Erin is the youngest of the relatives at 55 and didn’t become directly involved with his father’s music until he was 14, when he joined Davis on tour in 1985.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

That discovery placed another hominin lineage in the broader region during the same critical window and suggested that early human relatives were more widespread and ecologically flexible than once assumed.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

Throughout the 28-hour operation residents and soldiers looked on, waiting for news of missing relatives.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

So he'd had to borrow money from his relatives to buy a train ticket from the seaport town of Stettin to the bustling big city of Berlin.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple