How to Use kinship in a Sentence

kinship

noun
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  • He feels a strong kinship with other survivors of the war.
  • And not only that, but to feel some kind of kinship with it.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 12 May 2022
  • There’s a cool kinship between the way our bands do things.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 28 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Thompson may have felt a profound kinship with her as an artist — and with Poussin, too.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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 latter plot thread was a direct result of Smith-Cameron and Culkin’s longtime kinship.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Does kinship with your Mickey Mouse Club brethren mean nothing to you, Britney?
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Lim emphasizes the kinship that Taiwanese feel with the Ukrainians.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 June 2023
  • To demonstrate their kinship, the men take out their passports and playfully offer to exchange them on the spot.
    — Patrick Bixby, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Get involved: To learn more about ways to give or to sign up to sponsor a kinship care family, visit villageskids.org/spiritofgiving22.
    — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Both Rousteing and Gaultier share a kinship for A-list casting and there was no shortage of star power on the runway.
    — Kristen Bateman, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 July 2022
  • Those of us who work with genetic diseases see evidence of this kinship all the time.
    — Michael Segal, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Real and fictive kinship was central to this form of state building.
    — Sean T. Byrnes, The New Republic, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Sigo finds in the jazz maestro Sun Ra a transcendent kinship.
    — Cedar Sigo Anne Boyer, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Strong bonds of friendship and kinship have endured in this rural district.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The source of the kinship, nearly corporal, felt by the captain is difficult to locate.
    — David Bahr, Forbes, 31 July 2022
  • During the war, the kinship with Hungary has contributed to differences over who is at fault.
    — New York Times, 16 June 2022
  • When Braun finally caught up with Hammons, the pair quickly found kinship.
    — Shantay Robinson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2022
  • But that kinship is strangely juxtaposed with the war between Russia and Ukraine.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Many have found kinship with one another while readjusting to life back home.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The thing Putin is most scared of is having a thriving democratic country with a lot of kinship with Russia right on his border.
    — Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Its claims to kinship with global South countries are cynical and a touch contrived.
    — Happymon Jacob, Foreign Affairs, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Whether this reaching out is a matter of instinct or design is not the point; some public figures have a talent for kinship, and some don’t.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The site studied in most detail – Buckland, near Dover in Kent – had kinship groups that spanned at least four generations.
    — Duncan Sayer, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2022

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