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noun

sibling

a person's brother or sister

In a sentence

Six example sentences with sibling, each labelled with its topic.

  • Researchers tracked whether a younger sibling copies risk-taking or deliberately picks hobbies nobody in the family has tried.

    Psychology

  • The quartet's cellist recruited her sibling on viola after the original player moved abroad for medical school.

    Music

  • The plot turns when the heir discovers a sibling raised three towns away by their grandmother.

    Movies

  • The twins guard each other in practice, and neither sibling has ever let the other win a game of one on one.

    Basketball

  • The will left the house to one sibling, and the other two spent three years in court arguing over the vineyard.

    Law

  • Investors worried the founding team was two siblings, since a family quarrel could take the whole company down with it.

    Startups

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