Such a system, as he saw, minimized the differences which might otherwise be drawn between distant and close kin.

My grandfather went back to the old country as a young man and found our distant kin.

What do their leaders fear from renewed contact with distant kin?

Since he was distant kin to her, the remark stung the more.

It is a pity we could not deal together as distant kin should.

The second screen showed a male face that looked almost human; perhaps these people were distant kin to the Lekks.

I have looked upon the caves through it, seen distant kin of mine as I remember them.

Research is ongoing to determine the effects when extended towards distant kin.

Might she have been some distant kin of someone I haggled with on market days?

She is distant kin to Richildis, who took her in two years earlier when the girl was orphaned.