Blood is thicker than water
CulturalExample Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
As I soak beef to make another batch of bone soup for my mom, I'm reminded in more ways than one that blood is thicker than water.
From Salon • May 22, 2021
"But blood is thicker than water, and later on when I visited them I found that they welcomed me. My two kids now stay with my mother."
From BBC • Sep. 15, 2019
The strategy had resonance, since blood provides so many of our metaphors about family: blood ties, blood relations, blood is thicker than water, and so on.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 24, 2019
But in the end, blood is thicker than water.
From The Guardian • Sep. 9, 2016
After all blood is thicker than water, and Brenda had a little more than her share of true family pride.
From Brenda, Her School and Her Club by Reed, Helen Leah
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.