Example sentences for: cousins

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

  • Like their Algonquin cousins back in the woodlands of Québec and Ontario, they showed a great talent for hunting — moose, beaver, bear, caribou, and seal — with bow and arrow, traps, and harpoon.

  • Some of this synthetic fiber is wrought into velvet and its cousins plush and chenille, materials known to be man-made even when made of silk.

  • British speakers or, at least, those heard on BBC often emphasize certain phrases differently from their American cousins.

  • Leptin analogues (chemical cousins) are also being developed.

  • Close cousins of such words float unbidden into our consciousness.


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