Example sentences for: kin

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

  • The textbook example of kin selection is a newly minted gene that inclines a ground squirrel to stand up and give an alarm call upon seeing a predator.

  • And even if we think that all children are equal in the sight of God, we might understandably bequeath our property to our own kin.

  • But when I saw its kin threading up the collar Of the Colavita Extra Virgin Olive Oil, I scrubbed the cupboards with all The Formula 409 to be found, finding Larvae in the flour, in the corn Meal last used in the late-eighties, The creamy-style Skippy, the Basmati rice, The sesame seeds and Aunt Jemima Lite.

  • Nonetheless, (1) the low motility of females, and the fact that they live mostly on long-lived woody plants, means that maternal kin may interact over long timescales, as in social insects; (2) some scale insects appear to make relatively sophisticated social decisions about where to settle, settling nearer to (and thus possibly competing more closely with) non-kin than kin (Kasuya 2000); (3) although most scale insects use phloem sap, an almost inexhaustible resource, armored scales use parenchyma tissues (Rosen 1990), which may be locally exhausted, and therefore may compete against neighbors for food.

  • A typical example is the often-repeated “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast