Example sentences for: brethren

How can you use “brethren” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But the inconvenient fact remains: Americans have far more in common with one another than with our diasporan brethren around the globe.

  • Muslims in India today, as fervent as their brethren in Pakistan or the Middle East, are mostly descendants of those converts.

  • The magnitude of Nirvana's success--and the success of its lesser Seattle brethren, like Pearl Jam and Soundgarden--was such that it couldn't be ignored.

  • Du Bois wrote, "Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground."

  • "The brethren in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait want to bombard Iraq with missiles, deprive it of half of its only seaport and finance its dissident groups, but get angry when Iraqi officials cannot contain their outrage and let fly with a few statements condemning those who collude in aggression against their country," al-Quds al-Arabi added.


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