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Examples of relative in a Sentence
At the family reunion, I saw relatives I haven't seen in years.
He inherited a small piece of land from a distant relative.
The donkey is a relative of the horse.
Recent Examples of relative from the Web
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Unaccompanied children are held in these shelters until the government can find a suitable sponsor to release them to, typically a parent, a relative, or family friend.
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The Flores settlement, named for a teenage girl who brought the case in the 1980s, requires the government to release children from custody and to their parents, adult relatives or other caretakers, in order of preference.
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The boys at Casa Padre stay there an average of 49 days before being placed with a sponsor -- usually a relative -- reunited with parents or deported, said Sanchez, Southwest Key's president.
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The woman was concerned that Hemphill had not contacted relatives, the report said.
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Two hobbyists who run the site, a publicly searchable platform that lets users post raw genetic-data files to try to find distant relatives, said that the authorities never contacted them.
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The family is now staying with relatives who live in one of the surviving apartments, CBS affiliate WTVR-TV reports.
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Some 500 families have managed to escape their homes, with some now living in schools and others moving in with relatives, Mr. Basharmal, the government official in Deh Bala, said Thursday.
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Heimlich, who as a teenager pleaded guilty to molesting a 6-year old relative, didn't get picked for the second straight draft.
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First Known Use of relative
14th century
Other Genetics Terms
Definition of relative
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: introducing a subordinate clause qualifying an expressed or implied antecedent
- a relative pronoun
- a relative clause
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: not absolute or independent : comparative
- the relative isolation of life in the country
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: having the same key signature
—used of major and minor keys and scales
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: expressed as the ratio of the specified quantity (such as an error in measuring) to the total magnitude (such as the value of a measured quantity) or to the mean of all the quantities involved
Examples of relative in a Sentence
the relative value of two houses
the relative positions of the islands
We discussed the relative merits of each school.
“Who,” “whom,” “whose,” “which,” and “that” are all relative pronouns.
The phrase “that won” in “the book that won” is a relative clause.
Recent Examples of relative from the Web
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The relative lack of fellow tourists made these excursions even more memorable.
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Lots of big states with important races in the fall have had a relative lack of primary drama.
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Huber suggests Rupp's relative lack of popularity within the running community stems from media inaccessibility, a deficit of charisma and for being part of the Nike Oregon Project, which some believe pushes the boundaries of the rules.
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Some scientists and conservationists have questioned whether resurrecting the mammoth is really worth it, comparing the high costs with the relative lack of funding for saving the world’s elephants.
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But will their relative lack of seasoning ultimately catch up with them in a crowded 20-horse field for the Derby?
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On top of that, Russia’s relative lack of technical prowess at the time meant the tank was underpowered and mechanically unreliable.
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Moreover, state law, as seen in the Tennessee case, can be crucial in the relative ease with which districts can secede.
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Another possibility is to see if a relative with available funds would be willing to hold a mortgage on the home.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'relative.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of relative
15th century
relative Synonyms
Antonyms
extraneous, immaterial, impertinent, inapplicable, inapposite, irrelative, irrelevant, pointless;
Near Antonyms
frivolous, inconsequential, insignificant, little, minor, negligible, slight, trifling, trivial, unimportant;
meaningless, purposeless, senseless, useless;
Phrases
to the point;
RELATIVE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of relative for English Language Learners
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: a member of your family
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: something that belongs to the same group as something else because of shared characteristics, qualities, etc.
relative
Definition of relative for English Language Learners
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: compared to someone or something else or to each other
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: seeming to be something when compared with others
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grammar : referring to a noun, a part of a sentence, or a sentence that was used earlier
RELATIVE Defined for Kids
Definition of relative for Students
: a person connected with another by ancestry or marriage
Law Dictionary
relative
adjective
rel·a·tive
legal Definition of relative
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: not absolute
2
in the civil law of Louisiana
: having or allowing some legal effect
- a relative impediment
- a relative simulation
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relatively
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