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How to use kindred in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun, adjective

Kindred means distant and close relatives, collectively; kin. Example: “She found in her neighbor a good friend, gardening companion and kindred spirit.”

Examples of kindred by meaning

nounA household or group following the modern pagan faith of Heathenry or Ásatrú.

  • Your chosen kindred or other group is a Venn circle that contains you, but it may not be the same circle as your family.2013 November 8, Patricia M. Lafayllve, A Practical Heathen's Guide to Asatru, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 117
  • Not all, but many people believe that if you're not in a kindred, then you are not a real Norse Pagan or heathen.2019 May 20, Theodoric Dukka, A Heathen's Guide: Experiences & Advice On Magic & Spiritworking, →ISBN, page 101

adjectiveOf the same nature, or of similar character.

  • the kindred relationship between neuroscience and neurology

More sentences with kindred

  • She found in her neighbor a good friend, gardening companion and kindred spirit.From the entry kindred spirit
  • Many of the participants found themselves among kindred souls who shared their interests.From the entry kindred soul
  • Occasions that reinforce the ties of kindred.From the entry tie
  • Some Asatruar kindreds call their indoor altars stalls and their outdoor altars harrows.2006, Selene Silverwind, “Asatruar Tools and Practices”, in Everything you need to know about Paganism, David & Charles, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry stall
  • All Asatru organizations, publications, independent kindreds, and just plain Asafolk are asked to take part.1996, Lina, Ostara, volume 1, issue 4 (Heathen Journal), An Open Message to All Asafolk. From the entry Asafolk
  • Not being gnostic in the strict sense, the Bardaisanite doctrine flavors a kindred atmosphere.1982, Nina G. Garsoïan, Thomas F. Mathews, Robert W. Thomson, East of Byzantium: Syria and Armenia in the Formative Period, page 38. From the entry Bardaisanite
  • A kindred spirit to the above, even though less vexatious, is the telephonophile, or telephonomaniac.1955 October, The Manitoba Medical Review, page 523, column 1. From the entry telephonophile
  • Kindred evidence has been in part offered in proof of telepathy (q.v.), and of psychical research.1913, J. J., “Spiritualism”, in Paul Monroe, editor, A Cyclopedia of Education, volume five, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page…. From the entry propagandum
  • She was his kindred now, being Eliani's eldermother.2011, Pati Nagle, Heart of the Exiled. From the entry eldermother
  • I guess the skill cards are for the embraced kindred.2000 December 28, skaffen_...@my-deja.com, “Lazverinus, Thrall of Lambach”, in rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad (Usenet). From the entry graverob
  • Any person's omnilateral kindred includes his parents, both sets of grandparents, and so on bilaterally back through the generations.1973, Robert Bartley Taylor, Introduction to cultural anthropology, page 284. From the entry omnilateral
  • Having censured the circumcision, she bethought her of kindred topics, and asked Aziz when he was going to be married.1924 June 4, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, A Passage to India, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC. From the entry bethink
  • At first, and in their altercation with the god, the Erinyes restrict their office to vengeance on shedders of kindred blood.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. Orestea. III: Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 231. From the entry shedder
  • The kindred of a person is known as the ‘maegth’.1923, W. S. Holdsworth, Historical English Law, II. 36. From the entry maegth
  • Russ wants to believe they are still assembled in some recognizable manner, the kindred unit at the radio, old lines and ties and propinquities.1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld. From the entry propinquity
  • The wider kin, the mægth to seven degrees of kindred, may have been little more than a group that paid and stood guarantors.1991, Henry Royston Loyn, Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest, page 307. From the entry maegth
  • A kindred can be either omnilateral, including all of one's relatives, or restricted, which excludes some relatives by one or more criteria.1973, Robert Bartley Taylor, Introduction to cultural anthropology, page 284. From the entry omnilateral
  • To accept these and kindred social sicknesses as fatalities is as excuseless as to accept tuberculosis or hookworm as permanent and unavoidable ills.1913, John Graham Brooks, “Chapter 16”, in American Syndicalism. From the entry excuseless

Meaning of kindred

  1. noun Distant and close relatives, collectively; kin.
  2. noun People of the same ethnic descent, not including speaker; brethren.
  3. noun A grouping of relatives.

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Questions about kindred in a sentence

How do you use kindred in a sentence?
Kindred is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “She found in her neighbor a good friend, gardening companion and kindred spirit.”
What is a short sentence with kindred?
“Occasions that reinforce the ties of kindred.”
What does kindred mean?
Kindred means distant and close relatives, collectively; kin.

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