Sentence examples for distant relation from inspiring English sources

Curiously, Church was also a distant relation of Richard Church, who had been among Hooker's party.

He falls for a poorer distant relation, a young, former beauty-pageant contestant named Fusun.

While not a direct descendant, the gaokao is generally considered a distant relation of the keju.

At the time we called it gin, although I later discovered it is a distant relation.

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

A teenage boy who punched the Spanish Prime Minister is a distant relation of the leader.

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

(The Danish director Lars von Trier is a distant relation on his father's side of the family).

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

Tagore, "if not exactly one of us, is, as an Aryan, a distant relation of all white folk".

Dr. Warner's wife of many decades, Katherine Anne Romney, (a distant relation of the recent presidential candidate) died in 2007.