blood relative
- a variation of blood relation.
Example Sentences
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Vampire bats are highly social animals, for whom "blood relative" takes on a whole new meaning.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
They want to adopt Seraphim, their blood relative, his aunt and uncle said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2022
Crans is adopted, but his mother’s stepfather, Robert Lincoln Beckwith, was the last known blood relative of the Lincoln family.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2021
Why is it that the death of a pet often elicits a far more emotional response in a human than the death of a blood relative?
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2019
That would have been unfair—after all, she was no blood relative of Father’s—but perhaps they blamed Mother.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
