Sentence examples for closer relative from inspiring English sources

Not everyone is convinced:  Paleoanthropologist David Begun of the University of Toronto in Canada still thinks the relatively large Proconsul is the closer relative, because the new fossil's teeth and cranial base are so primitive that they "outweigh the derived attributes of the limbs".

Though it's not exactly a twin, it's a much closer relative.

Indeed, teosinte was at first classified as a closer relative of rice than of maize.

Mora suggested he might adopt the boy and found out the two were distantly related, but a closer relative took custody.

The decoding of the coelacanth genome, reported online Wednesday in the journal Nature, is a victory for the lungfish as the closer relative to the first tetrapod.

An even closer relative is Sidney Lumet's satirical "Network," whose punch line, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore," "Bamboozled" appropriates for its own subversive purposes.

Its closest relative is Tz'utujil.

Closest relative about 60 miles away.

Got his I.D. Closest relative.

She is his sole surviving close relative.

Ruth, a close relative and dear friend.