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Definition of blood brother
1 : a brother by birth
2 : one of two men pledged to mutual loyalty by a ceremonial use of each other's blood
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Examples of blood brother in a Sentence
He would never betray me—he's my blood brother.
Recent Examples on the Web His blood brother Storm Shadow is also his archenemy.
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NBC News, "'G.I. Joe' Spinoff With Henry Golding Gets Traditional Blessing in Japan," 10 Jan. 2020 All of this – as well as the way race poisons the relation between blood brothers – is baked into his play; the opening performance at APT made clear that Parson is much too good a director to ignore it.
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Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Hard questions about race in APT's 'Blood Knot' compounded by casting decision," 18 June 2018 Even the central drama of the Winter Olympics — the rapprochement between blood brothers North and South Korea — feeds into the narrative of ethnic nationalism.
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Brook Larmer, New York Times, "South Korea’s Most Dangerous Enemy: Demographics," 20 Feb. 2018 Are James and Irving blood brothers if there's bad blood between them?
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Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, "Cleveland Cavaliers: LeBron, Kyrie and the blood transfer -- Bill Livingston," 31 Jan. 2018 The attacks marked the beginning of a terrible new season, one that would, alas, blossom in 2015 and 2016 when 239 people died in a series of terrorist attacks in France, some masterminded by other pairs of blood brothers.
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Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, "A Terrorist's Brother—and France—on Trial," 4 Nov. 2017
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The first known use of blood brother was in 1799
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