Sentence examples for a distant relation to from inspiring English sources

But league cricket is a distant relation to the professional game.

Conceptually, "American Desert" is a distant relation to Kafka's "Metamorphosis," deriving its narrative premise from a radical -- impossible -- transformation.

Jason's Frost, cosily rumpled, slightly grumpy, is only a distant relation to the character who tells jokes so disgusting they can make people physically sick.

It may have been Tchaikovsky who inspired Pet Shop Boys to attempt their first ballet score, but the music they've written for The Most Incredible Thing is not even a distant relation to The Nutcracker or Swan Lake.

Within the royal pack of Etonians, Oxbridge grads and families with bloodlines that can be traced back 500 years or so, Mr. Pelly's own pedigree (he is a distant relation to the Earl of Pembroke) may not be as lustrous.

The South African-born English cricketer Jonathan Trott says he is a distant relation to Harry and Albert Trott.

Like many bookish city-dwellers, the Blivens were fascinated by nature but had a somewhat distant relation to it, until, well on in her career, Naomi began writing longer reported pieces on natural subjects — on trumpeter swans and on Kaaterskill Falls, to which she had been led by the famous Thomas Cole painting.

Three O26 isolates showed a more distant relation to STC29.

Phylogenetic analysis of the core genome revealed a rather distant relation to other sequenced species of the family Micromonosporaceae whereas Actinoplanes utahensis was found to be the closest species based on 16S rRNA gene sequence comparison.

He is the mechanic Jesse James, star of Discovery Channel's "Monster Garage," who lays claim to distant relation to the 19th-century outlaw of the same name.

He recalled when his mother brought him, at age 16, to visit a distant relation in Independence.