How to Use second cousin in a Sentence

second cousin

noun
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  • Franks was Loeb’s second cousin who lived just across the street.
    — Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024
  • In the spring of 1845 Thoreau could have been the sad second cousin in a Jane Austen novel.
    — Michael S. Hopkins, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2020
  • Hawke, who is a second cousin of Williams, rode the elegiac rhythms of the play’s gorgeous lament.
    — John Lahr, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Dawson Brown was his second cousin, and a year ahead in school.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 19 July 2021
  • This year marks the 46th anniversary of the murder of Scott’s second cousin, 20-year-old Ann Harmeier.
    — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • In fact, a second cousin is rumored to have eaten 30 one year.
    — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The actor was a second cousin to the Princess of Wales through his great-great-grandparents, though the two never met.
    — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 31 May 2022
  • Where everybody’s second cousin was in the Latin Kings.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Boy reads caption, which says that new boy in picture is girl’s second cousin from out of town.
    — Jen Kim, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2023
  • That’s when the second cousin started to run away, fearing for his life, police said.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Hello also to their aunts, uncles and second cousins and the boyfriends of those cousins, to their mom’s friend Sheila from work and their dad’s friend Steve.
    — Charlotte Alter, Time, 22 May 2020
  • Singletary is a Jasper, too, and Chase’s second cousin.
    — Jill Abramson, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Your high school friend who moved three states away or your second cousin will be in your audience.
    — Sam Mehrbod, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The host’s second cousin has a friend whose roommate I Insta-stalk.
    — Johnathan Appel lillian Stone, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2019
  • My much younger second cousin reached out by text and asked me to play for his upcoming wedding.
    — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Ninety percent of 23andMe users get at least one second cousin match.
    — Caitlin Harrington, Wired, 30 July 2020
  • Norton also happens to be the second cousin of King Charles, who served as the best man at their wedding, and the godson of Prince Philip.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The cause was congestive heart failure, said a second cousin, Tom Homan.
    — Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Some of her best buddies include her second cousins Prince George and Princess Charlotte.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 26 June 2019
  • Which means the newest royals will grow up very close in age, boding very well for a close second cousin friendship!
    — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 24 Feb. 2021
  • But two of his second cousins, one on his paternal side and one on his maternal side, had.
    — Heather Murphy, New York Times, 1 July 2019
  • Though a second cousin of Thomas Jefferson, Marshall was not rich, and his wife was sickly.
    — Kate Galbraith, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2018
  • She was picked up at the airport by the then-bishop of Kerry, Eamonn Casey, who was her second cousin once removed.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • My grandparents still live on the farm with a majority of my second cousins, great-titis and tios, etcetera, spread from San Juan to Mayaguez.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
  • The closest relative that the database found was a second cousin, Johnson said.
    — Helen Murphy, PEOPLE.com, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Polish the silver for everyone from dear ol’ dad to second cousin Sam!
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2021
  • One was Chelsea Rustad, a second cousin living in Tacoma.
    — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
  • If those variants are like siblings, this one was more like a forgotten second cousin.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Boy squints at picture and realizes girl’s second cousin kind of looks like a younger Mark Ruffalo, which boy thinks is kind of cool.
    — Jen Kim, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Presley voted in his hometown of Nettleton, in the northern part of the state just a few miles from where his second cousin, Elvis Presley, was born and raised.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2023

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