How to Use kin in a Sentence

kin

noun
  • They are her distant kin.
  • And that’s coming from his own kin!
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Yoshi and all his kin, being amiable sorts, agree to help.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 19 May 2026
  • His next-of-kin have been notified.
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In some respects, these women are better able to cope than their male kin.
    — Melissa Chan, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2021
  • All else held equal, this variant will have a leg up on its kin, and may outcompete them.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 June 2021
  • The distance between Prentice and the rest of his kin widened.
    — Nick Alvarez | [email protected], al, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Older trees direct more resources to their own kin and neighbors in need.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 17 June 2026
  • Subaru's sedan acts too much like its high-riding Outback kin.
    — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Those butterflies were also weaker than their pollen-fed kin.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026
  • This was one of the last of the elephant kin in North America.
    — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
  • One child cut out pictures of kids from magazines and presented them as her kin.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The gun range shooting has left a mark on both family and friends of the business owner and his kin.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 16 Apr. 2022
  • We, an out and proud gay couple, have been blessed with many friends who have become as dear to us as any blood kin could ever be.
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • Few will likely miss the lengthened RX that shared a wheelbase with its two-row kin.
    — Nick Kurczewski, Car and Driver, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Aligned in various ways against that cynical view are his friends (all men) and his kin (all women).
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • While Tommy and his few remaining kin survived, there would always be scope for more.
    — Miriam Balanescu, IndieWire, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Even after slavery was abolished, some families who sought to find their kin never did.
    — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Beyond the mental load, there is physical work involved with kin keeping too.
    — Ana Serrano, Glamour, 14 Dec. 2025
  • The coroner's office will release the person's name once next-of-kin have been identified.
    — Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Their names are yet to be released, pending notification of next-of-kin.
    — Austin Turner, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • And so it was left to the teenage girl as the next-of-kin to identify her father’s body at the morgue later that afternoon.
    — Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Now that their legendary predecessors have gained high regards in their own right, these younger kin are blazing their own trails.
    — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The kin in this autumn’s crop of mysteries are caught up in everything from blackmail to homicide.
    — Yvonne Zipp, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The man's identity has not been released as his next-of-kin has not yet been located and identified.
    — Mike Darnay, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The long wait time probably provides some cushion, giving late bloomers time to catch up to their more precocious kin.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2021
  • As Sarah etches ink onto the skin of her kin, the moment becomes emotional.
    — Andre Toran, The Courier-Journal, 6 May 2021
  • Usually featuring his kin and friends, the large-scale oil and acrylic works are cast in warm and welcoming colors.
    — CNN, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The names of the three people who died were not disclosed, pending next-of-kin notification.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Only Frank and Manhog seem truly disturbed by the jivas and their kin.
    — Sam Thielman, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2022

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