How to Use kinship in a Sentence

kinship

noun
  • He feels a strong kinship with other survivors of the war.
  • The costars forged a close kinship.
    — Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Just like all the truest soul mates in kinship and style should.
    — Vogue, 19 Apr. 2018
  • And yet there was a certain kinship.
    — Matt Weinstock, New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Paul comes from a close family and craves the kinship of a team.
    — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The ones who do not have kinship with other trans women.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
  • For all there is to mourn, kinship provides a kind of compass.
    — The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Johnson told her about the killing and about their kinship to Prather.
    — Emily Wagster Pettus, The Seattle Times, 21 Aug. 2018
  • So that was kind of cool to have, in a way, that Michigan kinship.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026
  • This is the time of year when we’re faced with the joys and the obligations of kinship.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
  • This is the time of year when we’re faced with the joys and the obligations of kinship.
    — Dan Stahl, New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2025
  • In a sense, kinship leadership is not new.
    — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Vulture is more of a descriptive term for this way of life than a mark of kinship.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Jones felt close kinship to senators in both parties from his three years there.
    — al, 8 Apr. 2022
  • For a moment, the woman felt a kinship with the chef, but the moment passed.
    — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 6 June 2018
  • Genuine kinship, even for a few hours, can feel harder than ever to find.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 30 June 2026
  • There’s no need to censure the desire to forge kinship, to lick one’s wounds, to seek respite or joy.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Small miracles of kindness and kinship are thin on the ground.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The kinship between mankind and fowls of the air has long been expressed through music.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2022
  • The name, All Well, reflects that kinship.
    — Eva Remijan-Toba, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Thompson may have felt a profound kinship with her as an artist — and with Poussin, too.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Just don’t expect authentic kinship, let alone depth or soul.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 18 Mar. 2026
  • They’d been drawn by the pay, but also by a sense of altruism and imagined kinship.
    — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The kinship between cinema and gold is a long and lustrous one.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
  • Stalter was a mega Girls fan and had felt a kinship with Dunham through the screen.
    — Anna Peele, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2025
  • Living in New York has shown me there’s a lot of kinship… within cuisines.
    — Julie Poole, Bon Appétit, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The goal is to disillusion us about ourselves, and to build kinship.
    — Gaiutra Bahadur, The New Republic, 25 Nov. 2020
  • And Pope felt some strange kinship with the missing man, a faint pulling connection.
    — Ian Frisch, Curbed, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Bug was left in his care as a kinship placement, when relatives or adults with close ties to a child agree to care for them.
    — Karina Bland, azcentral, 14 June 2018
  • Writers watching felt some kinship.
    — Thomas Swick september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025

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