Sentence examples for very close relative from inspiring English sources

Making eye contact with her was a humbling moment, an instant recognition; I was meeting a very, very close relative... I'll never forget that stare.

But if he were searched, the bomber would have forced any security guard who wanted to do his job thoroughly to behave in an un-Islamic fashion and intrude on an area of the body that is usually off limits to anyone other than a very close relative.

The insect, which passes on the dengue, yellow fever, and chikungunya viruses, lives side by side with a very close relative along the coast of Kenya.

They used genetic testing to show that maize is a very close relative of a variety of teosinte that grows today in Mexico's Balsas River area.

Goldman (2000) remarks that although the epistemological argument doesn't refute Rosenthal's actual view, it does undermine 'a very close relative of it'.

Separation of propylene molecule from propane in the petrochemical industry is an important issue because it is one of the most demanding energetic separation processes due to their very close relative volatilities and molecular sizes.

Because perfect matching is possible only between identical twins or very close relatives, many transplants occur between less closely matched tissue types, and success is achieved with the administration of powerful immunosuppressive drugs.

"Unfortunately I have two very close relatives with very bad diseases, one of them is cancer.

I doubt if the widow would want anyone except very close relatives to know.

"Suburban stations were some very close relatives, which replicated that symbol on a smaller scale".

It is still the custom in Qatar for young people to marry very close relatives, including first cousins.