KINSMAN in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for KINSMAN, such as:

1. Kinsman helps kinsman, but woe to him that hath nothing.
2. For instance, I have a kinsman who is constantly plaguing me.
3. The bride's kinsman gathered to make preparations for the wedding.
4. If his excellency had been at home, as a kinsman he would of course.
5. These Aeneas comforts with kindly words, and commends with tears to his kinsman Acestes' care.

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kinsman
 n.  a male relative
Classic Sentence:
1  Hence, no doubt, the bond that united him to Mr. Richard Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well-known man about town.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
2  And when Rowena's name was mentioned the noble Athelstane prayed leave to quaff a full goblet to her health, and that she might soon be the bride of his kinsman Wilfred.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
3  The only other kinsman whom we have been able to trace was Rodger Baskerville, the youngest of three brothers of whom poor Sir Charles was the elder.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Problem
4  For instance, I have a kinsman who is constantly plaguing me.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
5  You see," he suddenly said, "I am a kinsman of the count's and he has been very kind to me.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXII
6  If his excellency had been at home, as a kinsman he would of course.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXII
7  And the air is thick with their company as they call to me, their kinsman, making ready to go, shaking the wings of their exultant and terrible youth.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent was her real father.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
9  These Aeneas comforts with kindly words, and commends with tears to his kinsman Acestes' care.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
10  The part of avenger is likely to be assumed by a son, a brother, or other kinsman of the deceased, who in the ordinary course of events might have looked to succeed to the princedom.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
Example Sentence:
1  A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman.
2  Kinsman helps kinsman, but woe to him that hath nothing.
3  The bride's kinsman gathered to make preparations for the wedding.