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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If there are relatives who can take you in — grandparents, aunts, uncles — talk to them about it.
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The three are relatives, who were raised together by Quavo’s mother in Lawrenceville, Georgia, an Atlanta suburb, High Society wrote.
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Kim and Kelley may be the only blood relatives in the band, but the entire Breeders crew is a family.
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In late 2016 Fischer arranged to remodel the kitchen and great room in her sister's house through a series on the home design website Houzz, in which celebrities give home makeovers to relatives, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
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Also up on the stage were relatives of Joseph Mann, whose killing by Sacramento police in 2016 sparked outcry as well as changes to the department's policies.
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Also up on the stage were relatives of Joseph Mann, whose killing by Sacramento police in 2016 sparked outcry as well as changes to the department’s policies.
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After a nurse who was taking care of him at his Wyncote home suspected he was being abused by a relative, the nurse contacted the Montgomery County Office of Aging and Adult Services.
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So who are these (for the most part) chatty relatives and what are their relationships to Markle?
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First Known Use of relative
14th century
Other Genetics Terms
- a relative pronoun
- a relative clause
- the relative isolation of life in the country
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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Braun, who is largely self-funding his campaign, has sought to turn his relative lack of experience into an asset, painting himself as an independent businessman and outsider who can clean up Washington.
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The body was discovered by family who had not heard from their relative for several days and went to check on him.
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Especially from a relative unknown who'd pitched in Japan the previous three seasons and who had a grand total of five major-league plate appearances to his credit with no hits coming into the game.
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The relative lack of response to U.S. rate rises is unusual.
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The Giants hope to compensate for their relative lack of youth with an intangible that comes with experience.
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In some years, a relative lack of quality centers has led to a tilted playing field.
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On the other side, a relative lack of scoring has been a troubling trend recently for UC.
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Her spot in the Olympics is a result of the relative lack of depth in women's halfpipe and the fact that some countries that dominate in the sport, such as the U.S., can only send four competitors.
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
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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
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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
Law Dictionary
relative
- a relative impediment
- a relative simulation
relatively
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