KINDRED in a Sentence

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His meeting with her struck him as a particularly happy omen; he was delighted to see her, as though she were of his own kindred.

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 Meanings and Examples of KINDRED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
kindred
 a.  related; belonging to the same family
Classic Sentence:
1  Now that Charles was dead, her place and her son's place were with his kindred.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  The report of his undeniable delirium at sea was likewise popularly ascribed to a kindred cause.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
3  But if the doctrine of Fast-Fish be pretty generally applicable, the kindred doctrine of Loose-Fish is still more widely so.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
4  There would have been a species of profanity in the omission, had this man passed so powerful a community of his fancied kindred, without bestowing some evidence of his regard.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
5  The youth studied the faces of his companions, ever on the watch to detect kindred emotions.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
6  The excellent papa labored under the delusion that he was, and reveled in long discussions with the kindred spirit, till a chance remark of his more observing grandson suddenly enlightened him.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
7  I have no kindred to interfere.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
8  He was never married, and had no near kindred but ourselves and one other person, not more closely related than we.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  I would see your Saxon kindred together, Sir Wilfred, and become better acquainted with them than heretofore.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
10  'Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in kindred love,' he said.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
11  The truth seems to be, however, that the mother-forest, and these wild things which it nourished, all recognised a kindred wilderness in the human child.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
12  He could not sway the crowd but he might appeal to a little circle of kindred minds.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
13  His meeting with her struck him as a particularly happy omen; he was delighted to see her, as though she were of his own kindred.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
14  This thing I beseech thee, that is bound by no fatal law, for Latium and for the majesty of thy kindred.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
Example Sentence:
1  The rich never want for kindred.
2  I recall many discussions with her on these and kindred topics.
3  This wasn't about love, this was about raw animal attraction, about kindred spirits in carnal lust.