Examples of kin in a Sentence
Noun
They are her distant kin.
invited all of his kith and kin to his graduation party
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Ingu Chen, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Dec. 2025
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
New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2025
The Secret Service was not playing to get in that motherf–kin’ stadium.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Though the Yule log had once sprouted from a place of whimsical evolution (not many of us are reliably lugging colossal hunks of wood home), its flavors and construction have yet to experience the breadth of remix its flat-sheet and round-tiered kin have undergone.
—Ingu Chen, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Dec. 2025
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
Adjective
And non-kin pairs were more likely to engage in this genital-to-genital contact than kin.
—New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2025
The Secret Service was not playing to get in that motherf–kin’ stadium.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2025
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“Kin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kin. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.
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