KIN in a Sentence

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31 example sentences for KIN, such as:

1. Marriage between close kin is prohibited.
2. Disyere done broke her heart but she kin stan it.
3. Yassah, you kin sen me ter Tara, quick as you kin.
4. Well, yeh kin b'lieve me er not, jest as yeh like.
5. I have no kin, and I may also say, like you, no people.

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 Meanings and Examples of KIN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
kin
 n.  one's relatives; family; kinfolk
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  You may forget she's your kin but everybody else'll remember it.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  "Some folks thinks as how Ah kin fly," grumbled Mammy, shuffling up the stairs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  Ah has tole you an tole you dat you kin allus tell a lady by dat she eat lak a bird.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  "W'en you is mahied, you kin eat, too," retorted Mammy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  You kin sho tell a lady by whut she DOAN eat, an Ah say ter Cookie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  He isn't any kin to her family, but she knows all about him, everybody does.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Living with Charles' blood kin, seeing the home from which he came.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  Ellen, sensitive to the bonds of kin, be they blood or marriage, wrote back reluctantly agreeing that she must stay but demanding Wade and Prissy be sent home immediately.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  Mist Willie Burr frum Macom whut is kin ter us, he brung it ter Miss Pitty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
10  Yassah, you kin sen me ter Tara, quick as you kin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
11  Half of Atlanta was kin to or claimed kin with Melanie and India.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
12  Disyere done broke her heart but she kin stan it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
13  The best thing ye kin do is to go back, and when ye git into town ask a policeman.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
14  I have no kin, and I may also say, like you, no people.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
15  Well, yeh kin b'lieve me er not, jest as yeh like.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  Here she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it.
2  For a growing number of old people, connecting with kin should be more than just a holiday affair.
3  When I was a little girl, I heard that to dream of children was a sure sign of trouble, either to one's self or one's kin.
4  Your next of kin will receive death benefit if you die in an accident.
5  Marriage between close kin is prohibited.
6  We cannot release the names of the soldiers who were killed until we have informed their next of kin.