Sentence examples for friends and distant from inspiring English sources

In Iraq, the Kurdish refugees are strangers, welcomed into refugee camps and the homes of family friends and distant relatives, but still living in limbo.

If only we had a culture defined by a friendly homogeneity of purpose, a place where content commuters shared the street with neighbors, friends and distant cousins.

At their first wedding, when she was 22 and he was 27, the 250 guests included many of their parents' friends and distant relatives.

He told the newspaper he adopted his current surname by combining "names of friends and distant relations" and he has an agreement with two, unrelated, elderly British individuals to call them his grandfather and grandmother.

Recently some sleek services have emerged that let people find products and create wish lists that can be e-mailed to family, friends and distant relatives, essentially ensuring that they get at least one thing they want.

So it was that most of those who turned up yesterday were neighbors, friends and distant relatives -- those who knew Quachaun but may not necessarily have known him all that well.

Mr. Goodsell had bequeathed all the "stuff" to her and her husband, Joe, and to her father, William F. Suter, a close friend and distant cousin of Mr. Goodsell's.

(The movie is medically very explicit.) At the time of Charlotte's diagnosis, Ninon Marie Denarmaudd), a close friend and distant cousin who is Charlotte's age and equally attractive, comes to visit.

On one return, in 1983, he conducted a funeral for his longtime friend and distant cousin, the playwright Tennessee Williams, who was said to have used Mr. Lanier as a model for the tormented former Episcopal priest, T. Lawrence Shannon, in his 1961 play, "The Night of the Iguana".

Over the weekend, police raided the home of Enrique Marquez, a long-time friend and distant relative of Farook who purchased the two large weapons used during the rampage.

Instead of spending time with voters, I sat in a room for eight hours each day, calling friends, ex-friends, relatives, and distant acquaintances.