Sentence examples for to be a cousin of from inspiring English sources

One of the four suspects is said to be a cousin of the leader of the Sinaloa drug organization.

Mr. Dhao, who is said to be a cousin of Colonel Qaddafi, became a trusted member of his inner circle.

He was a farmer and was believed to be a cousin of another victim, Guo Nian Zhu.

The man is said to be a cousin of Mr. Hussein's with detailed knowledge of his hiding spots.

A larger drone, the Xianglong, or Soaring Dragon, is a long-range, high-altitude model that would seem to be a cousin of the RQ-4 Global Hawk.

Mr. Cabrera, who works in a clothing factory in Newark, is believed to be a cousin of the baby sitter's husband and lives in their apartment in Passaic with several other relatives of the couple.

In its intoxicating sense of place, and King's tying together of disparate pop-cultural strands, it sometimes seems to be a modest cousin of Greil Marcus's Invisible Republic or Lipstick Traces, or an example of the idiosyncratic kind of cultural-historical writing lately done by Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys in his travelogue American Interior.

One of the advisers, Alice Duer Miller, a best-selling novelist and a poet known for her verses ridiculing opponents of women's suffrage, happened to be a first cousin of Ellin's mother.

Mr. Rajula claims to be a distant cousin of Senator Barack Obama, an assertion that has become a cornerstone of his campaign here in western Kenya.

Murray has an MA in modern history from Oxford University and is said to be a distant cousin of the prime minister, David Cameron, through the 19th-century author of Vanity Fair, William Thackeray.

It also could be said to be a distant cousin of the much later tyrannosaurus rex.