Sentence examples for remote cousin from inspiring English sources

BROOMBALL, a remote cousin of ice hockey, has come a long way since street-car workers in Canada began swatting a small soccer ball around the ice with corn brooms 100 years or so ago.

The physician obviously cannot spend the time finding contact information for this remote cousin without cooperation from the patient.

Parental roles are often assumed by non-parents, while sibling rivalry contaminates relationships – sometimes with devastating consequences – not just between brothers and sisters but equally, in a family of this size, between remote cousins.

When you think of the people that have to be invited to an event of this sort – the President of Ghana, and Eric Pickles, and remote cousins called things like Foo-Foo von Hesse-Darmstadt-Sonderburg-Glucksburg Hesse-Darmstadt-Sonderburg-Glucksburg Hesse-Darmstadt-Sonderburg-Glucksburg Hesse-Darmstadt-Sonderburg-Glucksburg

The last Piast king of Poland, Casimir III the Great (ruled 1333 70), left his throne to his Angevin nephew Louis I, who was already king of Hungary (ruled 1342 82); but because Louis had no sons and was anxious to secure the Polish throne for his own dynasty rather than allow it to revert to remote Piast cousins, he tried to gain the support of the Polish nobility.

And then when La Famiglia, all the sons and daughters and cousins and remote kin and their spouses and friends, all 30 of them would eat and argue and sing, and offer many toasts with the homemade red wine, she would smile in deep satisfaction and exclaim over the noise, "Abbondanza".

The snows had scarcely melted last June when 24-year-old Joama and her three male cousins, yak herders in the remote mountains of northern Tibet, embarked on the most sublime journey of their lives.

And he took two girls (distant cousins, I believe) from a more remote area into his house so they could go to better schools.

The Fitch cousins, having travelled widely together to remote parts of the world, believed that they knew how to establish an instant rapport with indigenous peoples.

Ellen Barkin threw a memorable fit in "Down by Law," and in one of the sketches in "Coffee and Cigarettes" Cate Blanchett, playing two roles — an obnoxious star and her envious cousin — briefly smacked some life into that remote exercise.

The section in which she and her cousin and uncle climb a mountain and visit an aunt in a remote village is filled with small wonders.