How To Use First cousin In A Sentence

  • Equivocation is first cousin to a lie. 
  • He must be your first cousin, if your fathers were brothers.
  • He's my cousin's son so he's my first cousin once removed.
  • His first cousin is the town clerk, and his surname appears on the local Civil War monument.
  • His first cousin, Mariano Rivera, is a Yankee.
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  • It has relatives in the South, and the electric dinkie that rolls up and down between Venice and Santa Monica is its first cousin. Vignettes of San Francisco
  • Journey's end was a Palladian mansion, a gigantic first cousin once removed to the Feldbausch dolls ' house. TOY SHOP
  • There is no doubt I will be cheering Cardiff on because he is my first cousin.
  • Equivocation is first cousin to a lie. 
  • Friedrich August's consort was the Archduchess Maria Josefa, elder daughter of Emperor Josef I, sister of the Bavarian electress Maria Amalia and first cousin of the Empress Maria Theresia.
  • “After the funeral no woman to enter the house save only _those defiled_; to wit — mother, wife, sisters, and daughters; beside these not more than five women and two girls, _daughters of first cousins_: beyond these, none.” ( On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay
  • He was my great-grandmother's first cousin and the pair of them were two of the grandchildren of Samuel Gray senior, a maltster of the town.
  • Ron and Ken are first cousins who grew up on neighboring farms near Harlan in western Iowa.
  • A melodic first cousin of ‘She's The One’ it carries Robbie's indelible seal of arms-aloft pop and is punctuated by big brass parps and stirring keys.
  • History is repeating itself; they are the grandchildren of first cousins. Times, Sunday Times
  • History is repeating itself; they are the grandchildren of first cousins. Times, Sunday Times
  • History is repeating itself; they are the grandchildren of first cousins. Times, Sunday Times
  • Equivocation is first cousin to a lie. 
  • The most spectacular proof was my mother first cousin Edwin.
  • In 1840 her marriage was arranged to her first cousin Albert, a German princeling, with whom she produced nine children in twenty years.
  • The first cousin to the tank: an armed and armoured, wheeled military vehicle, with a good road and limited cross-country ability.
  • But if you decided to marry your first cousin, that would be very welcome.
  • Arzfeld cousins were kind, and none more so than her father's first cousin, the lame, one-armed Kaspar von Arzfeld. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • Smirting is a first cousin of smog (smoke + fog). Times, Sunday Times
  • He was first cousin to King Philip VI.
  • Neither Hebrew nor Aramaic have a specific word for cousin; relatives who are not brothers or sisters are called simply kinsmen or kinswomen, or, for one's first cousin, "the son or daughter of my uncle or aunt."
  • So what chance does Scot Ross have running against incumbent Doug LaFollette (Robert's first cousin thrice removed) in the fall Democratic primary for Secretary of State? He Follows the Flag Polls
  • Ron and Ken are first cousins who grew up on neighboring farms near Harlan in western Iowa.
  • For the fact that it was this said thirty-first cousin, Mr. d'Urberville, who had fallen in love with her, a gentleman not altogether local, whose reputation as a reckless gallant and heart-breaker was beginning to spread beyond the immediate boundaries of Trantridge, lent Tess's supposed position, by its fearsomeness, a far higher fascination than it would have exercised if unhazardous. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • Four first cousins, all named after their grandfather. Times, Sunday Times
  • The word gentleman has tended to be a term of abuse , first cousin to snob.
  • And the rest of them see nothing wrong with "gettin hitched" to their 16 year old first cousins as well. Latest ethics complaints should be 'a wake-up call,' Palin says
  • Richmond Unified turned to certificates of participation, a first cousin of lease-financing, to upgrade the schools.
  • Who were the first cousins? Smithsonian Mag
  • Less than a mile from our home stood the iffiest house I then knew, which I will here call Mountbracken, and there lived Sir W.E. Lady E. was my mother's first cousin and perhaps my mothers dearest friend, and it was no doubt for my mother's sake that she took upon herself the heroic work of civilising my brother and me. Surprised by Joy
  • It is from one to five feet in height, and an ill-smelling weed, though first cousin to the beautiful, cultivated datura, which is a highly prized garden plant. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls
  • They tended to be depressing these visits: the married sister was living in a small way; the first cousin seemed to have got into a rut; the uncle and aunt were failing, with a stooping, trembling, old-fashioned kind of decrepitude, a rigidity of body and mind, which somehow one didn't see much over home. The Imperialist
  • Defence lawyer Munyonzwe Hamalengwa suggested police had "cajoled" S. B.'s first cousin R.B. and wife D.B. into changing dates to suit the prosecution. Macleans.ca
  • Richmond Unified turned to certificates of participation, a first cousin of lease-financing, to upgrade the schools.
  • The Earl of Harewood is a female - line first cousin of the Queen.
  • Equivocation is first cousin to a lie. 
  • However, many states only punished relationships between first cousins and closer, and others only punished relationships of consanguinity, but not affinity.
  • In the acres of newsprint and hours of film footage devoted over the past week to the Queen Mother not even a passing mention has been made of her first cousin.
  • She's my first cousin once removed.
  • Who were the first cousins? Smithsonian Mag
  • Can a first cousin at one remove inherit the property?
  • An engagement at your age would be totally rash and unjustifiable; and moreover, alliances between first cousins are undesirable. Daniel Deronda
  • Four first cousins, all named after their grandfather. Times, Sunday Times
  • Who were the first cousins? Smithsonian Mag
  • Ktesibios's invention is first cousin to that all - American 20 th - century fixture, the flush toilet.
  • Although first cousin to the melodious mockingbird, a catbird's song is seldom musical.
  • He remembers that it was I who delivered the dispensation allowing him to marry his first cousin, Isabella of Castile. THE FAMILY
  • So you and this Duckworth dame and A. are first cousins and L.B. is my second cousin?
  • Can a first cousin at one remove inherit the property?
  • In 1853 he married his first cousin, Henrietta Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Wood.
  • Four first cousins, all named after their grandfather. Times, Sunday Times
  • Who were the first cousins? Smithsonian Mag
  • If you think of modern humans and Neanderthals as being first cousins, then the hobbit is more like a second cousin to both, Tocheri said. The Hobbit: Not Human? | Impact Lab
  • A white female fetus was the product of the third pregnancy of consanguineous (first cousins) parents; the mother was 25 years old and the father 34.
  • Equivocation is first cousin to a lie. 
  • She is a first cousin to me.
  • Four first cousins, all named after their grandfather. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was first cousin to King Philip VI.
  • Among the lower animals, up even to those first cousins of the vertebrated animals, the Tunicates, the two processes occur side by side, but finally the sexual method superseded its competitor altogether. The War of The Worlds
  • Ms. Gill's account of Victoria's family, and Albert's too -- they were first cousins, she belonging to the House of Hanover and he to the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha -- makes for hair-raising reading. Victoria and Albert, Allies in Love
  • History is repeating itself; they are the grandchildren of first cousins. Times, Sunday Times
  • The word gentleman has tended to be a term of abuse , first cousin to snob.
  • Although first cousin to the melodious mockingbird, a catbird's song is seldom musical.

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