Sentence examples for first cousin from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "first cousin" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a cousin who shares a grandparent with you, as opposed to a "second cousin" who shares a great-grandparent. Example: "My first cousin, Sarah, is coming to visit next week. We grew up together and are very close."

Dictionary

first cousin

noun

A child of a parent's sibling; a nephew or niece of a parent; a child of one's uncle or aunt.

synonyms

full cousin

cousin-german

cousin

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My lovely first cousin.

The New Yorker

(Guert Gansevoort was Melville's first cousin).

The New Yorker

Rudolfo is his first cousin.

The Guardian

He is his first cousin.

The Guardian - Tech

Toumanova was Tamara's father's grandfather's first cousin.

The New York Times - Arts

Survived by his first cousin, Claire Lewis Simon.

The New York Times

His first cousin Alidad, 24, was killed.

The New York Times

"He's a first cousin," he told me.

The Guardian - Books

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"First-cousin marriages always produce weak children.

The New York Times - Arts

Some societies consider first-cousin marriages to be ideal.

Encyclopedia Britannica

The relationships that are most frequent (around 30% in each case) are the first-cousin, first-cousin-once-removed and second-cousin.

EPJ Data Science

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