How to Use kinship in a Sentence
kinship
noun- He feels a strong kinship with other survivors of the war.
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There’s even a kinship to rockers like Mott the Hoople.
— John Adamian, courant.com, 6 Dec. 2019 -
And not only that, but to feel some kind of kinship with it.
— Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 12 May 2022 -
Here, all the details on the kinship between the onetime Prince of Wales and the current heir to the throne.
— Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 23 Nov. 2019 -
There’s a cool kinship between the way our bands do things.
— Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 28 Sep. 2022 -
Marching, for him, is mostly about the sense of kinship.
— Marta Zaraska, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020 -
There must have been a strong kinship with Barry, then.
— Gary Graff, cleveland, 15 Dec. 2020 -
The kinship between mankind and fowls of the air has long been expressed through music.
— Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2022 -
For all there is to mourn, kinship provides a kind of compass.
— The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022 -
Living in New York has shown me there’s a lot of kinship… within cuisines.
— Julie Poole, Bon Appétit, 25 Aug. 2021 -
Thompson may have felt a profound kinship with her as an artist — and with Poussin, too.
— Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022 -
To her, a river signifies the loss of a link to one’s home town and, with it, the erosion of a people’s kinship with a land.
— The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2021 -
Parks would have felt a kinship with Joseph despite the decades that separate their time in St. Paul.
— National Geographic, 26 June 2020 -
Adams hoped to develop a similar type of kinship with the two-time MVP but didn't want to come across the wrong way.
— Steve Megargee, Star Tribune, 17 Sep. 2020 -
The name of the company comes from the words kinship and tendrils, which support growing plants.
— John McCormick, WSJ, 18 May 2021 -
Steir’s work finds closer kinship in that of Agnes Martin.
— Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020 -
The actress clearly feels a kinship to the woman who resisted the Firm.
— Elizabeth Holmes, Town & Country, 21 Oct. 2020 -
The melody of the prose had a kinship with the warbling, meandering songs Newman was writing at the time.
— Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023 -
Not all the kinship of being a regular has been lost to the coronavirus.
— Rachel Levin, SFChronicle.com, 3 Sep. 2020 -
The goal is to disillusion us about ourselves, and to build kinship.
— Gaiutra Bahadur, The New Republic, 25 Nov. 2020 -
Through the laughs and jokes, the honors and speeches, remains that unique kinship, and it wasn’t lost on anyone Sunday.
— Marc Bona, cleveland, 6 Aug. 2023 -
Few took the enormous risks to themselves and their families out of kinship with the United States.
— Douglas London, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022 -
The extent of the kinship networks across all the tribes of the Northern Plains has been revelatory to me.
— Noah Davis, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2024 -
In the place known as Shingled Spit, where the Great Love begins, the close kinship between humans and whales is honored.
— Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2020 -
The latter plot thread was a direct result of Smith-Cameron and Culkin’s longtime kinship.
— Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022 -
The plan authorizes a $10.20 per child per day payment for kinship caregivers for up to nine months.
— From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2021 -
Jones felt close kinship to senators in both parties from his three years there.
— al, 8 Apr. 2022 -
All close friends off the field, that kinship translated to stifling defense on it.
— Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 26 May 2022 -
This gives us all a kinship that is powerful and translates to our customers.
— Joseph Deacetis, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021 -
However, the two warriors find a strange kinship until it’s shattered.
— Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2024
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