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• Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.From the entry Uzziel
• The plural English word brethren and the Farsi word that is pronounced as 'baradaran' both come from the same Proto-Indo-European root word.From the entry Proto-Indo-European
• For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.From the entry Chloe
• There is no denying that this RAZR model is leaps and bounds ahead of its older brethren.2007 April, Leon Ryan, “Motorola RAZR V3xx”, in Ismet Bachtiar, editor, GameAxis Unwired, Singapore: Hardware Zone, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 84…. From the entry revamp
• When minor demons become so bold, their more powerful brethren cannot be far behind."2006, Matt Forbeck, Prophecy of the Dragons, page 6. From the entry quasit
• Brethren if you want mo' preachin', save a little dram for me.2005, Tim Brooks, Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919, page 137. From the entry mo'
• But for another element, it will give birth and rise to a brethren, a one-world perspective.2000, Harold Skaarup, Dream Seer:: Old Wisdoms, →ISBN, page 92. From the entry religist
• Rasta music is sometimes played for what the brethren term "heartical" reasons (strictly for pleasure).1998, Nathaniel Samuel Murrell, William David Spencer, Adrian Anthony McFarlane, Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader, →ISBN, page…. From the entry heartical
• Here, in the desperate plight of so many of our brethren, lies a heavy charge against us.1952 September 19, Hugo Rahner, quotee, “‘Without God, Freedom Is Only A Word’”, in The Catholic Times, volume 1, number 51, Columbus…. From the entry tua culpa
• Nationwide, software developers haven’t struggled nearly as much as their programming brethren — few other computer-related occupations have.2025 March 14, Andrew Van Dam, “Department of Data: More than a quarter of computer-programming jobs just vanished. What happened?…. From the entry developer
• Here we are yet again, Brevard brethren.2017 August 18, “BDB: Wowzas! Check out waterspout on Banana River; rocket launch, Slurpees, Doggo of the Week”, in Florida Today. From the entry floofer
• Because this whiggish view depends on the expectation of progress, liberal politicians are more suspectible to it than their conservative brethren.2015 December 21, David A. Graham, “The Wrong Side of 'the Right Side of History'”, in The Atlantic. From the entry whiggish
• This exercise will help you develop the skills to tell your ninja brethren (and sistren and thingren) apart.2008, Douglas Sarine, Kent Nichols, The Ninja Handbook. From the entry -ren
• Unlike their USAF brethren with their 'bonedomes', the Australian pilots were only issued WW II type leather helmets.2006, Lloyd Knight, Rainbow, No End. From the entry bonedome
• Ivan Dérer, a Budapest-trained lawyer and ardent Czechoslovakist, who did not speak very fondly of his Slovak brethren.2003, Zoltan G. Mesko, The Silent Conspiracy: A Communist Model of Political Cleansing at the Slovak University in Bratislava After the…. From the entry Czechoslovakist
• But this was only to be expected, since our brethren in Usona are nothing if not careful and judicious compilers.1905 July 15, “The New U.S. Pharmacopœia”, in The Pharmaceutical Journal, London, page 70. From the entry USONA
• The shy hairy men who herd the tractile flocks might be, except for some added clothing, the very brethren of David.1903, Mary Austin, “The Mesa Trail”, in The Land of Little Rain, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC…. From the entry tractile
• The greater amberjack is the largest of the jacks, the most important amberjack to anglers, and, like most of its brethren, a strong fighter.2011, Ken Schultz, Ken Schultz's Field Guide to Saltwater Fish, page 31. From the entry amberjack
• I see many of the brethren and the sistren are in the same place I was the other night, when Tatyana commented on my gloom.2010 April 26, “The Calm Before the Storms”, in Neo-Neocom, retrieved 14 Mar 2012. From the entry sistren
• Along with your 'brethren, Get ready your scaling ladders, And your engines of onfall and assault, To attack the walls of Khung.2004, James Legge, The Shih King. From the entry onfall
• Like Ronald Searle, Al Hirschfeld, and Edward Gorey (to name three of his brethren), he is more than deserving of—to coin a word—prehumous homage.1991 January 21, David English, “Letters”, in New York, page 8. From the entry prehumous
• He had called on arms bearers to go to the aid of their brethren in the Holy Land and to liberate the Christian holy sites from the heathen.2001, Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry arms bearer
• There’s also much to learn here – for instance, I never knew that some of my brethren refer to yanking their crank as “bopping the bishop.”[1999 March 4, David Wild, “Private Dicks: Men Exposed”, in Rolling Stone, page 95. From the entry bop the bishop
• For a number of years a group of brethren of the Craig Yr Hesg Lodge, meeting in Pontypridd, had discussed the possibility of forming a new Lodge.1993 September, “Seeking an identity”, in Guildford Gazette, number 3, page 8. From the entry grasp the nettle
• Some spirited brilliancy, some persistent generosity (other than the guzzle's flash of it), might soften him; something sweeter than the slow animal well-meaningness his placable brethren point his attention to.1910, George Meredith, The Works of George Meredith, volume 20, page 180. From the entry well-meaningness
• These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant-like, seemingly to dumbly regard one another and their burdens, then, still ant-like, pass silently to their work.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry dumbly

Meaning of brethren

1. noun Kinsmen.
2. noun The body of members, especially of a fraternal, religious or military order.
3. adjective Of or akin to; related; like.

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Questions about brethren in a sentence

How do you use brethren in a sentence?

Brethren is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.”

What is a short sentence with brethren?

“Here we are yet again, Brevard brethren.”

What does brethren mean?

Brethren means kinsmen.