I know all his family perfectly well, sir; he is of the Randoms of the north--a very ancient house sir, and a distant relation of mine.
Her parents being dead, she presided over an elegant mansion in the most fashionable part of the city, having invited an excellent old lady, a distant relation of the family, to reside with her.
He was but a distant relationto the head of the House which he afterwards represented.
Footnote 3: Mr Courtney's brother had taken the name of Morton, to qualify himself for the inheritance of an estate, bequeathed to him by a distant relation.
But of all her friends she liked best of all one young lady, a distant relation, who was also of our party now.
I was in the service that I might have something to eat (and solely for that reason), and when last year a distant relation left me six thousand roubles in his will I immediately retired from the service and settled down in my corner.
He was some sort of distant relation of Zverkov's, and this, foolish as it seems, gave him a certain importance among us.
The mother of the young man was a very wealthy landowner in a neighbouring province, and the young man was a distant relation of Yulia Mihailovna's and had been staying about a fortnight in our town.
He was, besides, a distant relation of Gaganov's, though he was on bad terms with him, and even engaged in litigation with him.
This Blum was actually a distant relation of Andrey Antonovitch, though the relationship had always been carefully and timorously concealed.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distant relation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
