I will not weary you with a long and a sad story, but briefly mention that Mr. Dalton's late wife was a distant relative of my own.
During years of childhood he had been twice in that village, when his mother, a distant relative of the present owner of Kremen, was taking him home for vacation.
This girl, Carrie Norton, had, after spending some time in Deepdale, departed to live with a distant relative.
It was supposed that the mother of the baby was a distant relative of Mrs. Stonington, for the latter had a cousin who resided in the western city.
Carrie, however, who figured largely in the third book of this series, had gone, as has been said, to live with a distant relative.
A distant relative of Mr. Cotterell's and Godmother to Kate, departed this life, leaving her Godchild the very comfortable sum of six hundred per annum, secured in the four per cents.
Bercail in Alencon, where the benevolence of a distant relative, Mme.
Removing at an early age to Paris he began as clerk to a paint-dealer who was from Mayenne and a distant relative of the Orgemonts.
One had already greatly distinguished himself as a portrait-painter, and vied with Sir Joshua Reynolds in his own particular school of painting: this was Gardiner, a distant relative of the lady.
She arrived at Ipswich that afternoon, and took up her abode at her former lodgings at the Widow Syers', a distant relative of her mother's, though by no means a desirable person for Margaret to abide with at such a time.
There is a lady pouring out tea, a distant relative of the family, and living with Maria Alexandrovna in that capacity, one Nastasia Petrovna Ziablova.
This fact annoyed everyone; but, most of all, Mrs. Antipova, who happened to be a distant relative of the prince.
He took the place of the master, and in his absence was wont himself to welcome and entertain guests, being a distant relative of the master and a friend of the house.
The Count, a distant relative of the Horeszko family.
A distant relative of his had died, bequeathing him a large property, which made it necessary for him to go there immediately; so without waiting for the return of his wife, he had started off, leaving Woodlawn alone.
Two years before our story opens, she had left her mountain home to try the mysteries of millinery in the city, where a distant relative of her mother was living.
At last he spoke, telling her of a letter which he had that day received from South Carolina, containing the news of the death of a distant relative, who had left him some property.
With them resided a maiden sister of their mother's, Marjorie Westford, an eccentric person, whose property at her death reverted to a distant relative.
In the early summer of 1860 I went upon a visit to a distant relative of mine, who lived in one of the Shetland Islands.
That explained why my distant relative felt so keenly.
Never, never--try as we might--could any single one of us be quite in the position of one of those whose approaching pauperisation my distant relative had so vehemently deplored.
Another guest was an elderly, important-looking gentleman, a distant relative of Lizabetha Prokofievna's.
I wrote to Mrs. General Epanchin at the time (she is a distant relative of mine), but she did not answer my letter.
She was accompanied sometimes in her carriage by a girl of sixteen, a distant relative of her hostess.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distant relative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
