How to Use second cousin in a Sentence

second cousin

noun

• Susan is my second cousin.
• Franks was Loeb’s second cousin who lived just across the street.
  — Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024
• In the spring of 1845 Thoreau could have been the sad second cousin in a Jane Austen novel.
  — Michael S. Hopkins, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2020
• Hawke, who is a second cousin of Williams, rode the elegiac rhythms of the play’s gorgeous lament.
  — John Lahr, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
• Dawson Brown was his second cousin, and a year ahead in school.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 19 July 2021
• This year marks the 46th anniversary of the murder of Scott’s second cousin, 20-year-old Ann Harmeier.
  — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2023
• In fact, a second cousin is rumored to have eaten 30 one year.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2024
• The actor was a second cousin to the Princess of Wales through his great-great-grandparents, though the two never met.
  — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 31 May 2022
• Where everybody’s second cousin was in the Latin Kings.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 18 Oct. 2020
• Boy reads caption, which says that new boy in picture is girl’s second cousin from out of town.
  — Jen Kim, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2023
• That’s when the second cousin started to run away, fearing for his life, police said.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 25 Nov. 2019
• Hello also to their aunts, uncles and second cousins and the boyfriends of those cousins, to their mom’s friend Sheila from work and their dad’s friend Steve.
  — Charlotte Alter, Time, 22 May 2020
• Singletary is a Jasper, too, and Chase’s second cousin.
  — Jill Abramson, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• Your high school friend who moved three states away or your second cousin will be in your audience.
  — Sam Mehrbod, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• The host’s second cousin has a friend whose roommate I Insta-stalk.
  — Johnathan Appel lillian Stone, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2019
• My much younger second cousin reached out by text and asked me to play for his upcoming wedding.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2022
• Ninety percent of 23andMe users get at least one second cousin match.
  — Caitlin Harrington, Wired, 30 July 2020
• Norton also happens to be the second cousin of King Charles, who served as the best man at their wedding, and the godson of Prince Philip.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Nov. 2022
• The cause was congestive heart failure, said a second cousin, Tom Homan.
  — Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
• Some of her best buddies include her second cousins Prince George and Princess Charlotte.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 26 June 2019
• Which means the newest royals will grow up very close in age, boding very well for a close second cousin friendship!
  — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 24 Feb. 2021
• But two of his second cousins, one on his paternal side and one on his maternal side, had.
  — Heather Murphy, New York Times, 1 July 2019
• There’s not a word for second cousin once removed or even auntie, uncle.
  — Tomris Laffly, IndieWire, 20 June 2024
• Though a second cousin of Thomas Jefferson, Marshall was not rich, and his wife was sickly.
  — Kate Galbraith, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2018
• She was picked up at the airport by the then-bishop of Kerry, Eamonn Casey, who was her second cousin once removed.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
• My grandparents still live on the farm with a majority of my second cousins, great-titis and tios, etcetera, spread from San Juan to Mayaguez.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
• The closest relative that the database found was a second cousin, Johnson said.
  — Helen Murphy, PEOPLE.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• Polish the silver for everyone from dear ol’ dad to second cousin Sam!
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2021
• Jen, another mother of two, is married to the very Mormon, very blond Zac (who is, as we are told, Ben Affleck’s second cousin).
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2024
• Y’all, in this example, God is your second cousin Eddy in Detroit.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024