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Example sentences for "first cousin"

  • It is first cousin to the trilliums, among the prettiest of our native wild flowers," continues Burroughs, "and the same bad blood crops out in the purple trillium or birthroot.

  • The bust of your son's first cousin, lady.

  • Another person of whom we saw much at this time was the really saint-like Harry Grey, my mother's first cousin, who was living at Babbicombe.

  • An event of Christmas, after church, was the dinner of which Uncle Tom and Aunt Mary and Honora partook with Cousin Eleanor Hanbury, who had been a Leffingwell, and was a first cousin of Honora's father.

  • Then Eliphalet knew that the young gentleman was Miss Virginia's first cousin.

  • The business of Breck and Company, wholesale grocers, descended to my mother's first cousin, Robert Breck, who lived at Claremore.

  • For it was not by any means hard to suppose that Sam Fry, being John's first cousin, might have inherited either from grandfather or grandmother some of those gifts which had made our John so famous for mendacity.

  • Now Mr. Faggus was my first cousin and an honour to the family, being a Northmolton man of great renown on the highway from Barum town even to London.

  • Mr. Wendover, my best, my only friend's first cousin.

  • Remember, at least, that I am your dearest friend's first cousin, and ought not to appear to you as a stranger.

  • This dear old lady (widow of a first cousin of my father's) lived in uncomplaining poverty till 1891, and was a great pleasure to me.

  • My mother's first cousin, Henry Liddell, 1st Earl of Ravensworth.

  • My mother's first cousin, Susan, sixth daughter of the 1st Lord Ravensworth.

  • My mother's first cousin, Georgiana Liddell, had married Lord Bloomfield, formerly ambassador at Berlin and Vienna.

  • This is my first cousin, you know," whispered Adelaide, to Lady Baldock.

  • She's the Duke's first cousin, and we should be so sorry that things shouldn't go pleasantly with her.

  • Adelaide Palliser was the Duke's first cousin, and it was intolerable that the Duke's first cousin should be unable to marry because she would have nothing to live upon.

  • Why, she must be the Alice who disappeared--Dad's first cousin!

  • If he had only been born her brother or father, or even a first cousin, then it might be possible to do something, because, if necessary, he could remain always at hand.

  • He wondered vaguely if there were not some law that would make him a first cousin.

  • FN#346] Ali ibn Abi Taleb, first cousin of Mohammed and fourth Khalif.

  • FN#273] Abdallah ibn Abbas, first cousin of Mohammed and the most learned theologian among the Companions.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "first cousin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    are found; dear governor; driving snow; first base; first began; first expedition; first governor; first great; first hearing; first lieutenant; first love; first loved; first mentioned; first meridian; first mortgage; first page; first part; first printed; first saw; first section; first sight; first speech; first trip; first visit; first wife; severe attack