How to Use blood relation in a Sentence
blood relation
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Not the wife whose baby has no blood relation to the dead wife.
—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
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Anna Hernandez is a friend of the pastor’s daughters but has no blood relation to the family.
—Charlotte Observer, 27 Nov. 2025
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The move came as a surprise, since Høiby is not of blood relation to the late King and is currently on house arrest after being found guilty of two counts of rape in June.
—Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026
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But if a blood relation is mixed up with drug dealers, murderers, and terrorists, why doesn't a man in Jackson's position put an unequivocal distance between them?
—Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
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The people Sophie works with are her family — more than any actual blood relation — and that acknowledgement gives the friendships in this usually airy show grounding and depth.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2026
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