COUSIN in a Sentence

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225 example sentences for COUSIN, such as:

1. He is a distant cousin of mine.
2. Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
3. Eric went to Seattle to visit his cousins.
4. Don't haze the new roommate, he's my cousin.
5. I tried again to get ahold of my cousin Joan.

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 Meanings and Examples of COUSIN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cousin
 n.  the child of your aunt or uncle
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  To be sure, I hope I'm right, for I had a cousin who married a girl of that name, and as a friend of the family, we don't stand on ceremony.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
2  "Deal me the prize, cousin Prince," said Wamba; "I have vanquished my foe in fair fight with sword and shield," he added, brandishing the brawn in one hand and the wooden sword in the other.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  I will send Nanny to London on purpose, and she may have a bed at her cousin the saddler's, and the child be appointed to meet her there.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  The holiday allowed to the Miss Bertrams the next day, on purpose to afford leisure for getting acquainted with, and entertaining their young cousin, produced little union.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  He wrote with his own hand his love to his cousin William, and sent him half a guinea under the seal.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  She felt that she had a friend, and the kindness of her cousin Edmund gave her better spirits with everybody else.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  His kindness to his little cousin was consistent with his situation and rights: he made her some very pretty presents, and laughed at her.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  Very true indeed, my dears, but you are blessed with wonderful memories, and your poor cousin has probably none at all.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  There is a vast deal of difference in memories, as well as in everything else, and therefore you must make allowance for your cousin, and pity her deficiency.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  No pain, no injury, however, was designed by him to his cousin in this offer: she was not to lose a day's exercise by it.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  Fanny was led off very willingly, though it was impossible for her to feel much gratitude towards her cousin, or distinguish, as he certainly did, between the selfishness of another person and his own.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  I am so glad your eldest cousin is gone, that he may be Mr. Bertram again.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
13  The new dress that my uncle was so good as to give me on my cousin's marriage.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  And they will now see their cousin treated as she ought to be, and I wish they may be heartily ashamed of their own abominable neglect and unkindness.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
15  I must say, cousin, that I cannot approve his character.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence:
1  I tried again to get ahold of my cousin Joan.
2  Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
3  Don't haze the new roommate, he's my cousin.
4  She's a relation by marriage because she married my cousin.
5  An elderly cousin had left her a small legacy.
6  There are no such things as marble kisses or ice kisses, or I should say my cousin's salute belonged to one of these classes.
7  He is a distant cousin of mine.
8  "Well, do exactly what the doctor says. A cousin of mine ended up losing the sight of an eye over an infection like that." "Thanks very much! You are a proper Job's comforter, aren't you? "
9  The departure of the migrant workers for the holiday season has also shown up how dependent the city dwellers now are on these country cousins of theirs.
10  My cousins, full of exhilaration, were so eloquent in narrative and comment, that their fluency covered him.
11  Each of my cousins received an Easter egg on Easter Day.
12  Lexy's joy at finding the perfect Christmas gift for Phil was transient, she still had to find presents for the cousins and Uncle Bob.
13  My brother's wife and I both had babies around the same time, so the cousins are very close in age.
14  Eric went to Seattle to visit his cousins.
15  I'm not sure of the exact relationship between them-I think they're cousins.