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  • I feel poor compared to some of my classmates, but I know I am rich relative to most people in the world.
    relative = compared
  • How does our cost and profit change relative to sales volume?
    relative = compared (in this case looking at the changes in cost and profit at different levels of sales volume)
  • They took pictures of the body, of its position relative to the steps, close-ups of head wounds, the leg bent wrong.   (source)
    relative = in relation
  • Karim was a people smuggler—it was a pretty lucrative business then, driving people out of Shorawi-occupied Kabul to the relative safety of Pakistan.   (source)
    relative = when compared to other things
  • ...she couldn't get the brakes to work and she had Brian and me stick our heads out the windows and scream, "No brakes! No brakes!" as we rolled through intersections and she looked for something relatively soft to crash into.   (source)
    relatively = in comparison (to alternatives)
  • In the relative calm that followed, Lockhart straightened up, caught sight of Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who were almost at the door, and said, "Well, I'll ask you three to just nip the rest of them back into their cage."   (source)
    relative = compared to other things
  • But despite the relative proximity of the bus to civilization, for all practical purposes McCandless was cut off from the rest of the world.   (source)
    relative = when compared to other things
  • It was hot now, but the sun was high and to his rear and he sat in the shade of the tree in relative comfort.   (source)
    relative = compared to other things
  • Our relative positions were now clear, hers and mine; or they'd always been clear to her, but they were now becoming clear to me as well.   (source)
    relative = in comparison to each other
  • Jem said Mr. Avery misfigured, Dill said he must drink a gallon a day, and the ensuing contest to determine relative distances and respective prowess only made me feel left out again, as I was untalented in this area.   (source)
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  • Brinker, in his accelerating change from absolute to relative virtue, came up with plan after plan, each more insulated from the fighting than the last.   (source)
    relative = compared with something else
  • The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are relative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenomenon—such a concept is still reserved to the physical sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas.   (source)
    relative = not absolute attributes and therefore only meaningful in a context
  • They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered.   (source)
    relative = in comparison to each other
  • Among the lessons that Felix had bestowed upon Safie, geography had not been omitted; I had learned from these the relative situations of the different countries of the earth.   (source)
  • As a daughter, he hoped a penitent one, she should be protected by him, and secured in every comfort, and supported by every encouragement to do right, which their relative situations admitted; but farther than that he could not go.   (source)
  • It was well known as a relatively poor neighborhood.†   (source)
  • Except for a few black marks, it's relatively unscathed.†   (source)
  • Long-legged and short-tailed, with relatively long, narrow wings and flat head.†   (source)
  • Newspapers were relatively easy to come by in Omori.†   (source)
  • "Relatively, though I wish you'd come in three or four days ago.†   (source)
  • Only two were relatively young.†   (source)
  • The only ones relatively unaffected were the Halal Internet of Iran, China behind its Great Firewall, and North Korea, which was barely even connected to the internet.†   (source)
  • As both were relatively new to their positions, it was not essential that either have the best tables in the house.†   (source)
  • The plan I developed seemed relatively simple.†   (source)
  • As the inn was on the outskirts of town, we were relatively safe there.†   (source)
  • It sat on a relatively quiet block lined with similarly well-appointed houses, each by trees and grass.†   (source)
  • Parzival: Relatively young.†   (source)
  • At Pondicherry we were relatively fortunate.†   (source)
  • Grandfather rode at the front with the driver, a relatively clean man with neatly combed hair and a smooth face.†   (source)
  • "A relatively close vote at that," Teabing added.†   (source)
  • No one expected a relatively successful and independent man like Walter to follow every rule.†   (source)
  • The ground beneath him seemed relatively soft, and oddly warm.†   (source)
  • He finds a relatively flat rock near the side, where the current isn't strong, and sits down, his feet dangling over the edge.†   (source)
  • Other than the hollow thrum of the rain and the distant explosions of lightning and the gasping of breaths, it grew relatively silent.†   (source)
  • Its relatively small size, the tattoo artist said, meant that I could have it lined and colored in one visit, so there I was.†   (source)
  • "A negative result has relatively little significance to me," said Dr. Burton.†   (source)
  • I came from a relatively poor family.†   (source)
  • Whatever the difficulty, it was always solved with a relatively minor adjustment in the next version.†   (source)
  • The suit, Jean felt, was relatively clear-cut, especially in light of the fact that the harvest had been successful, and had looked right, too.†   (source)
  • Despite her arrogance, she was clever, and relatively kind, and somewhat charming.†   (source)
  • But the relatively undemanding expectations of the university had quite a different effect on Owen Meany.†   (source)
  • The morning was still relatively cool when we set off for the park, but the sun was bright and it was sure to be hot before long.†   (source)
  • The outer bandaging looked relatively new.†   (source)
  • It was pure fantasy, the idea that she could return to relatively innocent days in England.†   (source)
  • Acidalia Planitia (where I am) has a relatively low elevation.†   (source)
  • The Glass Terrace is relatively close by, only a floor down and a hallway over, so I don't get much time to collect myself before facing Elara and Evangeline again.†   (source)
  • Even though it was located in what was described as the "inner city," it was relatively new and neat and clean.†   (source)
  • The rest has been relatively uneventful.†   (source)
  • Climbing out of the mire onto the relatively solid ground that ringed it, I saw that the opening was the entrance to a tunnel that burrowed deep inside.†   (source)
  • The back is relatively tranquil, stacks of fedoras and berets arrayed on curved wooden shelves.†   (source)
  • I was still relatively incompetent even when I got to Berkeley.†   (source)
  • Maisie had fallen asleep watching TV, so it was relatively easy to climb over her bed and out the window.†   (source)
  • The ship was larger than the personal shuttle the queen's head thaumaturge, Sybil, had come to Earth on and yet still relatively small for all the importance it carried: smaller than most passenger ships and smaller than any cargo ship Kai had seen.†   (source)
  • The great Pacific tide was coming in and every few seconds the relatively still water of the lagoon heaved forwards an inch.†   (source)
  • And he kept this relatively high position in spite of his attitude.†   (source)
  • A relatively recent addition to the house and running its full width, the porch lacks congruence.†   (source)
  • "Let's face it," Southam responded, "there are relatively few skilled cancer researchers, and it seemed stupid to take even the little risk."†   (source)
  • We don't know how many people are actually in hiding; of course, the number is relatively small compared to the general population, but later on we'll no doubt be astonished at how many good people in Holland were willing to take Jews and Christians, with or without money, into their homes.†   (source)
  • Partly because of Ender's influence, they were the most flexible of armies, responding relatively quickly to new situations.†   (source)
  • "Hobie," I said, as soon as we were in a relatively quiet corner.†   (source)
  • It's relatively easy for humans to breed new types of corn to fit our needs.†   (source)
  • The bay is relatively calm today.†   (source)
  • ALBUS: Pearl dust is a relatively rare ingredient, isn't it?†   (source)
  • Not wondering about impossible things is how I've managed to be relatively Zen.†   (source)
  • The most terrifying thing about DIVORCE was that he had sensed the word-or concept, or whatever it was that came to him in his understandings-floating around in his own parents' heads, sometimes diffuse and relatively distant, sometimes as thick and obscuring and frightening as thunderheads.†   (source)
  • But I'm relatively close.†   (source)
  • Then there was mutual escort, which was two relatively notcrazy patients going places together.†   (source)
  • Luckily, all the wounds were relatively easy to heal, even those on her nose.†   (source)
  • The Gustav is relatively easy to use.†   (source)
  • The temperature is relatively warm for November.†   (source)
  • Crude at first but, by the time I came into being, relatively refined.†   (source)
  • I opened the window — surprised when it opened silently, without sticking, not having opened it in who knows how many years — and sucked in the relatively dry air.†   (source)
  • It's relatively easy to assign credit and blame on a baseball field.†   (source)
  • It was a situation I was relatively unused to this past couple of days.†   (source)
  • So some symbols do have a relatively limited range of meanings, but in general a symbol can't be reduced to standing for only one thing.†   (source)
  • He turned out to be relatively harmless, but you can see how some Unidentified Freaky Man would be cause for concern.†   (source)
  • My Cod, he's deadi" I Uncle Enzo leaves his jacket on, for now, because it's dark, and because it's lined with satin so that it is relatively quiet.†   (source)
  • For the next fifty years, ranchers sold their cattle in a relatively competitive marketplace.†   (source)
  • So Mom was taken not just with Dad but with the big, mostly intact, relatively normal family he belonged to.†   (source)
  • What do you mean, relatively speaking?†   (source)
  • After all, it's a relatively modern habit to put it on the cover.†   (source)
  • Off the relatively clean main streets, the alleyways were piled high with boxes and open bins that stank with that peculiarly sweet-sour odor of rotten food.†   (source)
  • That relatively small room appeared to be a forest of black dinner jackets, grey hair and cigar smoke.†   (source)
  • Because of this we were all treated relatively gently — apart from the beatings mentioned above, of course, but such things hardly counted in the climate of the times.†   (source)
  • They soon began a relatively easy climb and the pace slowed.†   (source)
  • I felt a certain amount of relief, knowing that she was safe and relatively sound.†   (source)
  • I don't worry about it so much by day, when he plays in relatively safe areas.†   (source)
  • You're just lucky your record over the years has been relatively clean.†   (source)
  • And what I did was a relatively simple thing for us.†   (source)
  • Eventually she was able to read relatively sophisticated material.†   (source)
  • They all have relatively similar backgrounds and similar knowledge.†   (source)
  • She worked part-time as a teacher so we had that steady income, but it was a relatively small stream.†   (source)
  • They were inexpensive and relatively low-maintenance.†   (source)
  • But let me add that B positive is a relatively rare blood type.†   (source)
  • But who Socrates "really" was is relatively unimportant.†   (source)
  • The street was bright from illuminated signage but relatively quiet.†   (source)
  • But Kabuki is a relatively young art form; it didn't exist before the 1700s.†   (source)
  • It was still relatively light out, summer prolonging the balmy twilight warmth.†   (source)
  • Now Kim and Farmer and Jaime Bayona and the others in Socios had proven that effective treatment was possible, even in a slum in a relatively poor country.†   (source)
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  • I have relatives in California.
  • There's lots of events and stuff, and some relatives comin' in.   (source)
    relatives = people related by blood or marriage
  • They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip—the relative you cringe to kiss.   (source)
    relative = a person related by blood or marriage
  • The idea was they would be able to stop a woman accompanied by a man and require her to prove that the man was her relative.   (source)
    relative = person related by blood or marriage
  • And she had Mrs. Murdo, who was somewhere between a friend and a relative.   (source)
  • By then, most of my friends and relatives had either been killed or had escaped the country to Pakistan or Iran.   (source)
    relatives = people related by blood or marriage
  • Erma's parents had died when she was young, Mom explained, and she had been shipped off to one relative after another who had treated her like a servant.   (source)
    relative = a person related by blood
  • The Dursleys had always forbidden questions about his wizarding relatives.   (source)
    relatives = people related by blood or marriage
  • Apparently there was always at least one stray relative living at the Finneys' temporarily.   (source)
    relative = person related by blood or marriage
  • His mother had left some salmon out by mistake one time when they went on an overnight trip to Cape Hesper to visit relatives and when they got back the smell filled the whole house.   (source)
    relatives = people related by blood or marriage
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  • He was a sick man who returned home to see his friends and relatives before he died.   (source)
  • She had relatives here, an aunt, an uncle.   (source)
  • How come their relatives couldn't come and warn them?   (source)
    relatives = people or things connected in various senses
  • -he just gets passed around from relative to relative, and Miss Rachel keeps him every summer.   (source)
    relative = a person related by blood or marriage
  • When a letter from home told me that a trip to visit relatives had been canceled because of gas rationing it was easy to visualize my father smiling silently with knowing eyes—at least as easy as it was to imagine an American force crawling through the jungles of a place called Guadalcanal—"Wherever that is," as Phineas said.   (source)
    relatives = people related by blood or marriage
  • Sometimes a man came to consult the spirit of his dead father or relative.   (source)
    relative = person related by blood or marriage
  • He was also a distant relative of that other boy whose mulberry-marked face had not been seen since the evening of the great fire; but he was not old enough to understand this, and if he had been told that the other boy had gone home in an aircraft, he would have accepted the statement without fuss or disbelief.   (source)
    relative = a person related by blood or marriage
  • Suddenly Nate was an orphan with just one living relative in the world: the uncle that Papa had always hated.   (source)
    relative = person related by blood or marriage
  • It stood, dark and threatening, over their shoulders night and day, for out of it Indian tribes marauded from time to time, and Reverend Parris had parishioners who had lost relatives to these heathen.   (source)
    relatives = people related by blood or marriage
  • Some of the angriest letters-and by far the most disturbing to read-came from relatives of the deceased.   (source)
  • If the target refused the summons, the Atropos expanded the contract to include all of his blood relatives, born and unborn.   (source)
  • He might remain in Switzerland and wreak his vengeance on my relatives.   (source)
  • She's probably uploading the latest family snapshots on Facebook for our out-of-town relatives.†   (source)
  • I've pored over grainy sepia pictures of long-dead relatives in babushkas; black-and-white snapshots of distant cousins in crisp white linen suits, soldiers in uniform, ladies with beehive hairdos; Polaroids of bell-bottomed teenagers and long-haired hippies, and not once have I been able to detect even the slightest trace of August's face in their faces.†   (source)
  • There was much hugging among all the relatives.†   (source)
  • The adults at the party are relatives, friends of the family, his parents' business associates—but at least eighty of the guests are Lev's friends.†   (source)
  • Aren't there any relatives who can take care of him?†   (source)
  • Love to all relatives and friends.†   (source)
  • Teenagers courted openly, adults met with relatives and friends they had not seen since the previous year's "big meeting," and children ran almost free.†   (source)
  • Relatives or whatnot.†   (source)
  • Chris is visiting her relatives in Boca Raton.†   (source)
  • It's All Relatives   (source)
  • It was impossible for her to stay at the base with the baby all by herself, and she had no relatives who could help.†   (source)
  • There were teachers, distant relatives, and friends.†   (source)
  • She registers her name and address with the Red Cross, having been told that all returning prisoners are doing this in the hope they can find missing relatives and friends.†   (source)
  • "We're visiting relatives," he bluffed.†   (source)
  • There was England, with Brad's sister, or Grand Lake, with my folks, or Texas, with Brad's dad and stepmother, and we had other relatives too.†   (source)
  • I'd seen it happen a million times already, kids caught out there in one way or another—killed, imprisoned, shipped off to distant relatives.†   (source)
  • He had died a sixty-seven-year-old bachelor, with no living relatives and, by most accounts, without a single friend.†   (source)
  • Nurses and doctors, weeping relatives, and volunteers from the Free African Society whispered their sorrows.†   (source)
  • There are no known relatives.†   (source)
  • My relatives worked hard all the time but never seemed to prosper.†   (source)
  • After the dentist's office, my mom drove me to the cemetery where a lot of her relatives are buried.†   (source)
  • Luke almost felt he knew his relatives, though they lived hundreds of miles away.†   (source)
  • He'd been wondering how it would feel for him to grow up without relatives.†   (source)
  • After the shooting, relatives up north took Conrad in and raised him.†   (source)
  • Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.†   (source)
  • I envisioned all my relatives and friends being there for me whenever I returned.†   (source)
  • She thinks I'm without living relatives."†   (source)
  • Families who had walked hundreds of miles told how relatives had been killed and their houses burned.†   (source)
  • Relatives of the deceased warrant officer—family members from Modesto and Yuma—had been delayed in Phoenix for what must have seemed forever.†   (source)
  • Little Jeffrey was shipped off to his nearest relatives, Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan.†   (source)
  • Mr. and Mrs. Rosen have been called away to visit some relatives.†   (source)
  • Only a few relatives knew that two generations before, the name had been Doufinakas, but his Greek ancestor George, as far as Dell was concerned, had done the right thing.†   (source)
  • He promised to send a picture of himself to his relatives in America.†   (source)
  • We decided to visit relatives in New Jersey so we rented a car and started driving south.†   (source)
  • As children they used to torment each other with "the look" at the Sunday lunches their parents gave for elderly relatives.†   (source)
  • This is when my mother would take out a box of old ski sweaters sent to us by unseen relatives from Vancouver.†   (source)
  • It was Ali's mom and dad, her brother, her grandparents, and some others who must've been relatives.†   (source)
  • To be back home taking care of individuals I went to school with and neighbors, friends, relatives, and people from the community was simply priceless.†   (source)
  • She and Mr. Byrne will be gone for the day, visiting relatives out of town.†   (source)
  • "Who wants to see the new addition?" she sang out, pouring herself some chardonnay before marching a troupe of relatives up the stairs.†   (source)
  • I knew Engleesh and my parents deedn't, and we came off the airplane and my relatives were here, aunts and uncles I had not ever seen, in the airport, and my parents were so happy.†   (source)
  • Before Christmas that year, there were only a couple of gifts for me under the tree, and those came from relatives outside the immediate family.†   (source)
  • Ashoke takes photographs of every room, Gogol standing somewhere in the frame, to send to relatives in India.†   (source)
  • One of Nacha's relatives, she had just had her eighth child and was grateful for the honor of feeding Mama Elena's grandson.†   (source)
  • So he tracked down relatives of the Rosetans who were living in other parts of the United States to see if they shared the same remarkable good health as their cousins in Pennsylvania.†   (source)
  • I had relatives in Maryland —people who would help me if I needed them, and if I could reach them.†   (source)
  • Right after Aaron's birth, at his bris party, when all the relatives had been making fools of themselves over him, Hannah had taken a ballpoint pen and written a string of numbers on the inside of her own left arm, hard enough to almost break the skin.†   (source)
  • He had taken to calling them relatives from the very first "How's Uncle Louis today?"†   (source)
  • New visitors arrived, relatives of Steve's, and Mom decided to leave them alone with him and his mother.†   (source)
  • Ladies of the Selection, gentlemen of the guard, and friends and relatives of the royal family, please welcome King Clarkson, Queen Amberly, and Prince Maxon Schreave!†   (source)
  • No one in Clover could take all ten children, so relatives divided them up—one with this cousin, one with that aunt.†   (source)
  • Our lives were not without anxiety, since our relatives in Germany were suffering under Hitler's anti-Jewish laws.†   (source)
  • "I told her you and your mother got into a fight, so I was taking you to one of your relatives' houses in Austin.†   (source)
  • Sent him to America to live with relatives and barely gave him another thought.†   (source)
  • In another, the woods were crawling with Angelo's Sicilian relatives.†   (source)
  • All those people, the hundreds of wounded, the relatives, the medics from 13, are no more.†   (source)
  • The Maartens have relatives, sort of cousins, who've got a farm near Loenen.†   (source)
  • We're their last living relatives, right?†   (source)
  • I thought you were in the Andes, looking for your relatives.†   (source)
  • The single Latin American mothers began migrating in large numbers, leaving their children with grandparents, other relatives, or neighbors.†   (source)
  • In case you want to know that you still have living blood relatives.†   (source)
  • I had waited all year to see all the relatives who weren't at Thanksgiving.†   (source)
  • Dauber takes credit for it—the word, he claims, was a combination of "big" and "giggles" that had been invented for one of his relatives.†   (source)
  • Neither did I look like the role models in my life-my stepfather, my godparents, other relatives-all of whom were black.†   (source)
  • He says his mother was so excited about showing off the baby to the upstream relatives he got jealous and hid out, and she plumb forgot to take him.†   (source)
  • I don't have nothing to offer your relatives but just what they offer me.†   (source)
  • She snapped the portrait of her three perfect children in October, and sent it out to several hundred friends and distant relatives, without it ever occurring to her that most of the recipients would have no idea about the strange new addition to the family.†   (source)
  • Life among the Pashtuns is demanding-it depends on the respect of your peers, relatives, and allies.†   (source)
  • Holmes smiled and explained that she had decided to visit relatives in California, something she had long wanted to do but could never find the time or money to accomplish and certainly could not have done with her husband on his deathbed.†   (source)
  • What I've done in the meantime is hand it out to a few college students of my acquaintance, some of them veterans of my classes, some of them close relatives who owe me a favor.†   (source)
  • Certainly by the afternoon, she would have taken in and synthesized the warmth of the millions who cared for her, and would be ready to properly thank Mae, to tell her how, now with the new perspective, she could put the crimes of her relatives in context, and could move forward, into the solvable future, and not backward, into the chaos of an unfixable past.†   (source)
  • The wedding was modest and unpretentious; the parents of both were dead and they had only a scattering of distant relatives in that section of the state.†   (source)
  • I lead him around the long way, away from Shiloh's pen, and he doesn't even notice because he's unwrapping his kite, made of silk or something, which one of his relatives brought him.†   (source)
  • People were climbing aboard while friends and relatives in the crowd wept or simply stared.†   (source)
  • Walowick said he hated weddings and funerals because all of his relatives got together and fought.†   (source)
  • Sherman said she was going upstate to live with relatives near the hospital that housed her daughter.†   (source)
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  • Are there questions relative to our discussion?
  • At that time I will ask you to sign the necessary forms of consent relative to the treatments we propose.   (source)
  • You can bring up your motions relative to that ruling this afternoon or if there's a break.   (source)
  • Do you have any idea where we are relative to Bholevna?   (source)
    relative = in relation to
  • … I may be in contact with you shortly relative to messages I expect will have been sent to me.   (source)
    relative = concerning (related to)
  • It had been real business, relative to the renewal of a lease in which the welfare of a large and—he believed—industrious family was at stake.   (source)
    relative = related to
  • "So far, you haven't told me anything startling," said Bourne, "nothing relative to the information I'm interested in."   (source)
  • He was to go to town as soon as some business relative to Thornton Lacey were completed— perhaps within a fortnight; he talked of going, he loved to talk of it; and when once with her again, Fanny could not doubt the rest.   (source)
  • …but Mr. Yates, without discernment to catch Sir Thomas's meaning, or diffidence, or delicacy, or discretion enough to allow him to lead the discourse while he mingled among the others with the least obtrusiveness himself, would keep him on the topic of the theatre, would torment him with questions and remarks relative to it, and finally would make him hear the whole history of his disappointment at Ecclesford.   (source)
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  • He tried to see in his mind where the hay hatch was positioned relative to that ceiling light.†   (source)
  • For my American friends, "a visiting relative" meant a three-night stay.†   (source)
  • But in your hollow sphere, all the holes remain in fixed positions relative to each other.†   (source)
  • With that, the motley assembly stumbled into the night, leaving the Count to approach the bar in relative peace and quiet.†   (source)
  • It wasn't just about the money or my relative lack of it.†   (source)
  • He realizes he has settled into a pattern of life that is comfortable relative to the conditions of the majority.†   (source)
  • It must have belonged to a relative.†   (source)
  • My grandmother's parents left Havana in the 1930s in search of work; at the time Jamaica was an island of relative prosperity amid the worldwide Great Depression.†   (source)
  • For the next decade, Ogden and Kira enjoyed a peaceful, happy existence, living and working in relative seclusion.†   (source)
  • But I don't recall that I had a single thought during those first minutes of relative safety.†   (source)
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  • The clerk did not look pleased that I had a living relative.†   (source)
  • More than eighty gospels were considered for the New Testament, and yet only a relative few were chosen for inclusion—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John among them.†   (source)
  • The relative anonymity of these kids seemed to aggravate their plight and their despair.†   (source)
  • D'you think I'm proud of having a relative like her?'†   (source)
  • Could be a relative of the prime minister.†   (source)
  • A few yards away, I realize that I know that dark hair that always gleams, even in relative darkness, and that long nose with a narrow bridge.†   (source)
  • You must be adopted by a relative.†   (source)
  • If you go outside, you must be accompanied by a mahram,a male relative.†   (source)
  • A letter from a relative was a cause to celebrate, and Mother always dropped whatever she was doing and sat down to open it with trembling hands, calling out at intervals, "Oh, Aunt Effie's in the hospital again…." or, "Tsk, Lisabeth's going to marry that fellow after all…."†   (source)
  • This one, a gangly teenager with gigantic feet, had just turned off the corridor light, and in the relative darkness was checking to see if any light escaped from beneath the students' doors.†   (source)
  • Your father's being overly dramatic, trying to make me feel bad for criticizing our neighbors because there's a retarded relative someplace.†   (source)
  • And it isn't a fixed relationship like the relationship be tween our house and Mrs. Shears's house, or like the relationship between 7 and 865, but it depends on how fast you are going relative to a specific point.†   (source)
  • He ran through the streets, and kept running until he reached the steps of a relative's house, where he collapsed on the porch.†   (source)
  • Grover panted, when we'd collapsed in the relative safety of a black poplar grove.†   (source)
  • Or another relative?†   (source)
  • We keep it at ninety-nine degrees Fahrenheit and a relative humidity of one hundred percent.†   (source)
  • In the first months of 1940, I could still walk the streets of Krakow in relative freedom, even if no longer fearlessly.†   (source)
  • Well, everybody here has got some relative in there.†   (source)
  • Metias must be her relative.†   (source)
  • From my grandmother I learned that logic is relative.†   (source)
  • "You've already brought a relative over?"†   (source)
  • Surely she would have known if she had a relative by that name.†   (source)
  • I load up as much bottled water as I can carry, which isn't a lot because water is heavy, and get back to the highway and the relative safety of the trees as quickly as I can, before night falls completely.†   (source)
  • And in the picture frame, like some kind of lost relative, was a photo of a lemur.†   (source)
  • "Oh, so you're a close relative," she said, as if she only now realized that.†   (source)
  • The place was called Taylor's Camp, because the land these squatters lived on was owned by a relative of actress Elizabeth Taylor.†   (source)
  • Yes, it all came back to him with relative ease.†   (source)
  • "What's our relative velocity and distance to MAV?"†   (source)
  • …and Uncle George were shaken down, not just for two thousand dollars' worth of TVs and refrigerators but also for a night's lodging for twenty-six people in the Overlooking the Lake Hotel, for three banquet tables at a restaurant that catered to rich foreigners, for three special gifts for each relative, and finally, for a loan of five thousand yuan in foreign exchange to a cousin's so-called uncle who wanted to buy a motorcycle but who later disappeared for good along with the money.†   (source)
  • My da used to say every Irishman you meet in America swears to have a relative who fought alongside Michael Collins.†   (source)
  • A wry and twinkling relative carving up the bird.†   (source)
  • She said I could pretend to be a distant relative of Phillip's mother from Missouri.†   (source)
  • The guidance counselor suggests that perhaps Gogol could join his parents later, after the school year ends, stay with a relative until June.†   (source)
  • "Kid, bad's a relative term.†   (source)
  • You sent one of your sons to work in a nearby village for a relative.†   (source)
  • It meant that they were late for lunch sometimes, but it also meant that they could all change in relative privacy, which they should have thought of months ago.†   (source)
  • "The only close relative I've got left is my sister," he said.†   (source)
  • He was being looked after by a relative, who did not care too much for anyone visiting him, and especially darker people.†   (source)
  • "Speed is relative," he said, tugging his red cloak tight around his shoulders, pulling back into the shadows so we could not be seen, and that was all the answer he gave.†   (source)
  • When Cofield returned alone, the staff refused to give him the records because he wasn't a doctor or a relative of the patient.†   (source)
  • But relative to what we were doing when the ship picked them up …†   (source)
  • We maintain custom temperature control to AAM (American Association of Museums) requirements of 70 degrees and 50 percent relative humidity.†   (source)
  • In the relative quiet, the birds take back the woods.†   (source)
  • A week later we hear that they've had to move in with a distant relative.†   (source)
  • The relative's home isn't a vast improvement.†   (source)
  • Time is relative, baby, he thought, and stuck in eight quarters.†   (source)
  • That's what I meant by time being relative.†   (source)
  • I am her only living relative.†   (source)
  • Everything's relative, I guess," said Lisa.†   (source)
  • But there were large sections of the city under relative control.†   (source)
  • Mommy also aligned herself with any relative or friend who had any interest in any of her children and would send us off to stay with whatever relative promised to straighten us out, and many did.†   (source)
  • Some manner of beast, a horseish gazelle, relative of the giraffe.†   (source)
  • * The fantastic general rise in overall NFL salaries since 1993, when players were granted the right of free agency, obscured a more striking shift in relative pay.†   (source)
  • Distances are almost critically relative.†   (source)
  • As Burnham talked with her, a relative also entered the room.†   (source)
  • The river is both danger and safety, since the relative isolation from land and detection is offset by the perils of river travel on a makeshift conveyance.†   (source)
  • There's some story about a rebellion, and that some relative of mine led some mass slaughter of a thousand men and women and children.†   (source)
  • She was his mother's only living relative and Grey had allowed arrangements to be made for the weekly calls.†   (source)
  • One remembered the tonic mixed there that cured a relative.†   (source)
  • Best of all was when there were concerts at the cathedral, because a relative was sexton there.†   (source)
  • You a relative, or just a friend?†   (source)
  • "It's a means of determining the relative merits of propellants.†   (source)
  • Because it's all relative.†   (source)
  • Change is constant, stagnation is relative.†   (source)
  • The Edison district has a tavern for approximately every three-point-five people over the age of six, and Spokane absolutely depends on it to keep our crime rate equal to or above other US cities of our relative size.†   (source)
  • The kids are a guarantee of our relative longevity.†   (source)
  • The source of his brittle elation was the relative smallness of his misfortune.†   (source)
  • No. He just said you had gone to visit a sick relative, and that your phone probably just didn't work out in the country.†   (source)
  • Finally, at a boarding house on the edge of the town, the landlady suggested I motor on several miles to a roadside inn run by a relative of hers which, she assured me, was bound to have vacancies, being too far out of Tavistock to be affected by the fair.†   (source)
  • All the students knew where they stood relative to their forty-nine peers.†   (source)
  • Only such precautions could ensure, with relative certainty, that you would not be picked up.†   (source)
  • Was he a relative?†   (source)
  • Mack ate slowly and in relative silence, simply enjoying Papa's presence.†   (source)
  • I should go to my room, to the relative privacy of that little place with my bed, my window.†   (source)
  • I wanted to get Denna back to the relative safety of Trebon as soon as possible.†   (source)
  • I wait for relative calm and then dial Nathaniel's sister Jennifer in Atlanta.†   (source)
  • She had arrived two years before from the fishing village of Puerto Padre, entrusted by her family to Florentino Ariza as her guardian and recognized blood relative.†   (source)
  • I believe innocent is a relative term here.†   (source)
  • It nullifies gravity within certain limits prescribed by relative mass and energy consumption.†   (source)
  • All principles, all truths, are relative, they said.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the deceased is a friend or relative of a church member.†   (source)
  • Did you, for example, call a friend or a relative to deliver the happy news?†   (source)
  • Who you got there, honey, some relative?†   (source)
  • Conversations focused mainly on conspiracy theories, the status of the fighting, and how to get out of the country—and since visas, which had long been near-impossible, were now truly impossible for nonwealthy people to secure, and journeys on passenger planes and ships were therefore out of the question, the relative merits, or rather risks, of the various overland routes were guessed at, and picked apart, again and again.†   (source)
  • Both had been living in relative comfort.†   (source)
  • Relative sanity.†   (source)
  • Can we send something back with your relative?†   (source)
  • For a while I was punished for being so uppity that I wouldn't speak; and then came the thrashings, given by any relative who felt himself offended.†   (source)
  • Insanity is relative.†   (source)
  • Relative poverty in a place like New York.†   (source)
  • "Look, I'm not going to argue with you over the relative merits of trash—"†   (source)
  • He moved with his family to Stockholm and lived in relative poverty.†   (source)
  • Up until then I had never been particularly disturbed about seeing a corpse--even when I'd have to sit for an hour or so at a funeral parlor when some relative had died.†   (source)
  • Safe was a relative term.†   (source)
  • She further sorted the metal by relative hardness and purity according to the qualities the crystals displayed.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hickock came once a month; her husband had died, she had lost the farm, and, as she told Dick, lived now with one relative, now another.†   (source)
  • Yesterday, Matt had shown off a graph of relative age of hockey players in the NHL.†   (source)
  • Reza Shaflee, a relative of Moody's, was an anesthesiologist from Switzerland.†   (source)
  • He's a relative, you know.†   (source)
  • I wasn't a relative, I didn't have no right to see her."†   (source)
  • I also learned that our house had been raided and the police had detained a young relative of Winnie's.†   (source)
  • Then suddenly Batia Reich, a relative who was living with us, came into the room.†   (source)
  • Where did I belong with my relative innocence gone?†   (source)
  • He can be as heartless as his daughter, but he's the only relative I have who treats me like family.†   (source)
  • With its open spaces and relative affluence, it was also soccer country.†   (source)
  • Not the challenges Phoebe faced in a world that didn't welcome her, not the relative ease of his own life, not what their father had clone—none of it.†   (source)
  • She was the sort of relative who always remembered your birthday but who you only went to visit because you had to.†   (source)
  • I, for one, was glad that they shifted the subject away from me and I could eat my salad and think in relative privacy while they bickered back and forth.†   (source)
  • I now knew that Molly and Roger, the bride and groom, had lived together for three years, a fact that one gobbler relative was sure contributed to the recent death of the family matriarch.†   (source)
  • There is always a rich relative.†   (source)
  • Third, relative to the size of the black population, lynchings were exceedingly rare.†   (source)
  • A policeman tries to restrain the crowd while a man identifies the body of a relative.†   (source)
  • When I congratulated her in the relative privacy of our cube, she tried to downplay her triumph, but I could tell that she was deeply satisfied.†   (source)
  • Between 0 and 1, the relative distance between the two people on the Dumper/Dumpee range.†   (source)
  • I was taken aback when he put his arms around my shoulders and hugged me like his own son, or anyway like a close relative.†   (source)
  • Sending Ritter or Greer out would be far too obvious, whereas you, on the other hand, are a relative—†   (source)
  • "Don't you have no folks?" he asked, hoping there was a relative somewhere ahead whom he could leave the girl with.†   (source)
  • "I can walk around in Poipet, but only with a close relative of the owner," Neth explained.†   (source)
  • Positioning relative to the field is also critical.†   (source)
  • Probably a brother or other relative.†   (source)
  • And after a few weeks where I didn't do anything to the number of layers I was wearing, the same female relative said, "You're getting so huge all of a sudden!"†   (source)
  • One day, a distant relative of the old couple took pity on them and quietly slipped two hard-boiled eggs into their hands.†   (source)
  • While Abdullah pumped, Mortenson spoke to the old man as Kais translated from Dari, the close relative of Farsi that was the most common language in northern Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • An older relative met them there and told them to be ready to cross the next day.†   (source)
  • To hear people talk about the son I'd only been able to imagine as if he were as familiar to them as a relative was almost too much to bear.†   (source)
  • It hasn't been so bad, relatively speaking, and everything in my life is relative.†   (source)
  • Dora was Drogo's sister and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century.†   (source)
  • "A relative, perhaps?" asked John.†   (source)
  • It was only about seventeen ninety-five, Lestat and I having lived there for four years in relative quiet, I investing the money which he acquired, increasing our lands, purchasing apartments and town houses in New Orleans which I rented, the work of the plantation itself producing little …. more a cover for us than an investment.†   (source)
  • Some were flapping in the wind, but I could make out a few from the relative safety of the Beater.†   (source)
  • Sitting one cloudy afternoon near mid-November in Mr. Taylor's room, a word takes shape: accepting, a close relative to the unspeakable acceptance.†   (source)
  • He knew Otis would make it right, and he would finally have the comfort of his only living relative being close by.†   (source)
  • You a relative?†   (source)
  • "Yep, we've been talking on the phone, and he's found a relative over near Birmingham.†   (source)
  • Woref spit into the leaves and walked deeper, leaving the relative safety of the meadow behind.†   (source)
  • Though Umberto and his colleagues had found a place of relative quiet, he was still shouting.†   (source)
  • "Relative?" she asked, in Radchaai.†   (source)
  • You said it, man; he a relative of yourn?†   (source)
  • Hoping for relative quiet, she jogged west down a cross street and ended up fuming behind a clicking microbus.†   (source)
  • For the first time in her life, the people she knew only as "the rich folks"—wealth is a relative thing—were being nice to her, by the dozen.†   (source)
  • "He's trying to explain things, Lou," said DeFazio's relative, the killer.†   (source)
  • The most trite and common things as well as the more nice relative either to customs, manners, arts, policy, or constitution are equally known to him.†   (source)
  • I began to build upon a good foundation, helping me grasp complicated equations with relative ease.†   (source)
  • He turned at the sound of her footsteps and had to screw his eyes up to see into the relative dark of the corridor.†   (source)
  • Both devices emitted signals by which they could be located; therefore, swift retrieval from the wreckage had been possible even in darkness and even from the relative remoteness of the site.†   (source)
  • She sat beside her brother, her hand on his arm, the other hand on the arm of a shriveled old woman, precious relative.†   (source)
  • Uncle Axel was not a real relative.†   (source)
  • We didn't know if the black-haired one was a relative of theirs or something.†   (source)
  • Max was surprised by the relative modesty of the room.†   (source)
  • I was invited by the NFL to attend the draft in New York, but given the relative uncertainty of the round in which I was going to be selected, as well as the desire to stay at home with family and friends who had watched and been a part of this long journey with me, I decided to stay back in Jacksonville.†   (source)
  • And then the president asks for a show of hands from the crowd, asking the people of Galway if they have a relative in America.†   (source)
  • We just use money as a shortcut for the relative value of the bet.†   (source)
  • All values are relative!†   (source)
  • Smart was relative, he supposed.†   (source)
  • They've never been outside Bonang, except as babies, and the only relative from Tiro they've met is Auntie Lizbet, who came down a year ago for our baby sister's funeral; they remember her "funny shoe," meaning her club foot, and that's about it.†   (source)
  • GEORGE (Laughs quietly) All truth being relative.†   (source)
  • The linguistic imprint on American English of German and its Jewish relative, Yiddish, is on an altogether different scale.†   (source)
  • I have no living relative.†   (source)
  • Do you think you've ever had a relative who's had her portrait painted?†   (source)
  • It lasted that way for centuries, with both tribes living in relative harmony.†   (source)
  • Messages would be telegraphed from one station to another to arrange for a relative to meet and remove him from the train.†   (source)
  • Truth is not relative.†   (source)
  • I thought she was a very distant relative.†   (source)
  • It's the terrain, the thin air, and our relative lack of mass.†   (source)
  • Or was it some other relative?†   (source)
  • Even now, in the relative cool of the cask room, I can't help glancing at the sun-kissed skin of his forearms and wondering what it would feel like beneath my fingertips… Oh my God, what's WRONG with me?†   (source)
  • These combine to create differences in the relative wealth of different countries.†   (source)
  • She looked at me for an answer, and I shrugged, said that I had never heard if she was; I was embarrassed by my ignorance of my own relative.†   (source)
  • Because Hisham was so outstanding (but also because he wasn't the son of a professor at the university or a relative of a minister), he placed twentieth in his class on graduating.†   (source)
  • He's not a blood relative.†   (source)
  • Like many Israelis, Ayelet had a relative, an uncle, who was involved in secret government work.†   (source)
  • I've looked up the relative reports and done the math.†   (source)
  • Since, in every case but one, there were extra adults, and since I could learn nothing about their relative status in the family except by murdering them ( which would have enabled me only to determine age and sex), I again resorted to Ootek for information.†   (source)
  • She taught them to jiao ren: Though there was only one relative to name, Helen would ask, Who's that? as Theresa entered the room.†   (source)
  • Then, the story goes, in that split second of decision, and in the relative cover of the winter evening darkness, he felt the hand of the Protestant worker next to him take his hand and squeeze it in a signal that said no, don't move, we'll not betray you, nobody need know what faith or party you belong to.†   (source)
  • The midwife or a relative would take the back of a girl baby's head in her hand and turn her face into the ashes," said my mother.†   (source)
  • Because the weesa-bedo was my relative.†   (source)
  • I am now in a military command post of relative safety.†   (source)
  • George wondered whether to commiserate with Jan for his newly acquired relative.†   (source)
  • But motion is relative.†   (source)
  • She had become like a relative to him, he confided, and he wouldn't charge her a penny.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND (Slowly) All motion is relative.†   (source)
  • It was as if he'd never received a good word from a relative before.†   (source)
  • They debated the relative merits of crooners—Bing Crosby v. Rudy Vallee.†   (source)
  • If you can't listen, perhaps you can tell the class whether 'value' is a relative, or an absolute?†   (source)
  • No relative to the train robber.†   (source)
  • The Brahman fell silent, and remained silent for so long that the stars in the small window wandered and changed their relative positions, 'ere the silence was broken.†   (source)
  • This Reese might be a relative.†   (source)
  • Tiverzin's relative.†   (source)
  • The hum of the motors dropped to a lower note for the first time in three weeks; within the hull the relative silence was almost oppressive.†   (source)
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