noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a baby son/daughter/brother/sister
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We’d like a baby brother or sister for Ben.
elder brother/son/sister/daughter etc
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His elder son Liam became a lawyer.
sb’s little brother/sister (= a younger brother or sister who is still a child )
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Her little brother and sister were fighting again.
twin sister/brother
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Meet my twin sister.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Soon after that I saw her big sister Barbie in Mrs Marriot's.
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Kathy had been my protector in the gang of neighborhood kids, the big sister who linked me to all the others.
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Julie and I had never fallen out before, and Barbie had always been like a big sister to me, too.
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The years fall away and Pennington is a lonely little boy, mourning the loss of his three big sisters .
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But she was older than me, my big sister , so when Dad died that age difference made it difficult.
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He may have to put up with being ordered about by a big brother or sister anxious to exert their authority.
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They were like little puppies falling over themselves all the time, and I was their big sister .
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And last week its big sister , the Doel 3, was also having problems.
elder
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She was, as she always had been, a kind of benign, elder sister .
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Her elder sister married the Reverend Norris, who received the living at Mansfield.
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In fact, although Constanze was not such an accomplished singer as her two elder sisters , she was by no means musically illiterate.
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In contrast, Jane Alexander as the elder sister and Robert Klein as her bulky beau are hitched to plows.
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Mum ran when she was young and my two elder sisters , Lorraine and Lisa, could have been good.
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Two of the survivors had several elder sisters working as compositors.
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For several years she made tours of the Continent with her elder unmarried sister , Caroline.
little
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She never imagined her little sister , exasperating as she was, would join the bosses.
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Hold on a minute, little sister .
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She sees her, the little sister .
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His little sister gripped a shoot of fuchsia bougainvillea and wailed.
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I was the boy hiding in the cupboard, gagging my little sister so she wouldn't cry out.
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Fifi and Carmencita watched while Mundin unwrapped the snake from around his neck and poked one end at his little sister .
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It was Tess who worried and worked and felt responsible for her little brothers and sisters .
old
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Investigators then questioned her 14-year-#old sister , who had also babysat for the Allens.
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One of my older sisters used to live in a penthouse apartment in Santa Monica.
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They knelt facing each other and to George, Elizabeth looked no older than her sister , Sarah.
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The matrons helped remove the older sister .
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She saw the same qualities in a dignified woman at the flower market who could have been his older sister .
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My oldest sister Sally played the clarinet for a long time, and was modestly successful.
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Remember that this also applies to young children playing with small toys like marbles with older brothers or sisters . 4.
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He told me he asked his 4-year-#old kid sister the same questions.
twin
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Sheer panic: Accused describes the barn fire that killed twin sisters .
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Maryellen is the twin sister of a woman Manny had gone out with over ten years ago in New York.
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Mr Goldring said that after Becky died her twin sister Katie was brought into the hospital purely for observation.
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My twin sister is a nurse and I suppose all the blood and thunder of things took me a different way.
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You - both of you - must have know that a twin sister could be the saving of her life!
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You will never build your city of Skadar until you find a twin brother and sister , Stoja and Stojane.
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I had a twin sister I might never have known about.
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Muhammad Reza was timid, even gentle and self-questioning, quite unlike his twin sister , Ashraf.
young
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She eats the eggs laid by her daughter, whose sole job is to raise her own young sisters .
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They assist their parents in feeding their new younger brothers and sisters and in defending them from predators such as snakes.
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I have an older brother and a younger sister .
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Jack and his remaining younger brother and sister were in the first group to go.
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At the age of sixteen he was left without parents in charge of a younger brother and sister .
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I refuse to allow you to inspect my cellars simply because you have seen my young sister carrying a torch.
■ NOUN
baby
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Anna-this is Honey-she's my baby sister .
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Endures the arrival of a new baby sister .
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Now he had Leo's baby sister to contend with.
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She grew up around the corner from me, and our baby sisters were best friends for many years.
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And when I hummed old tunes that soothed my baby sister something in them spiked your grief to howling.
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Sheila Barnes lost both parents, a brother and baby sister .
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I remember very distinctly the morning when my father came to tell us we had a new baby sister .
company
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The Post got the book from a sister company , the publisher HarperCollins.
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Our sister company , the Snakes, made the first assault in the morning and received very little opposition.
paper
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He had telephoned a warning to the Chester office of the Echo's sister paper , the Daily Post.
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And our sister paper the Sunday Mirror revealed yesterday she had given 37-year-old Bryan a room there.
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Journalists on our sister paper , the Liverpool Echo, also won awards yesterday.
publication
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At any rate, the most prominent critic was Nick Seitz, the editorial director of Golf Digest and its sister publications .
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Thirdly, if you haven't already, take out a subscription to our sister publication , Peak Performance.
ward
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Occupational psychology Ward sisters in modern hospitals have in addition to their direct nursing roles, an important administrative one.
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The ward sister has up-to-date information, for example, the social worker's reports or changes in treatment.
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Indeed, in some hospitals, joint appointments of ward sister and teacher have been introduced.
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The ward sister and trained staff on the other hand may have forgotten the small incidents which cause anxiety in the learner.
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Philip stood helplessly while she talked to the ward sister and exerted her considerable authority to get the doctor called immediately.
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She had the right academic approach to nursing to make a first-class tutor, but not ward sister .
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The amount of time spent by ward sisters on teaching varies considerably.
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It might have been the ward sister or the staff nurse.
■ VERB
live
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The goose was to come from Mr Evans's older sister who lived outside the town and kept poultry.
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Summer 1983 My sister is living on the West Coast.
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In 1973, Debbie Mack, a student at Northwestern University, noticed something strange about the sorority sisters she lived with.
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Stapleton told me that he and his sister had lived in Devonshire for only two years.
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He said that he was barely on speaking terms with his older brother and sister , though they lived at home.
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His sister had lived in the big gloomy house for such a little time.
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One of my older sisters used to live in a penthouse apartment in Santa Monica.
marry
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For Davey ended up marrying Bret's sister Diana.
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But he accepted all that when he married Corinne Roosevelt, sister of the future president.
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But when she turned him down he married her sister instead.
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It is in fact just like each boy marrying his own sister: no averaging of estates takes place.
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But she married and my sister took her place.
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Forcing her into a loveless marriage the same way he's forcing you pair into marrying the Costello sisters .
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His younger brother James married Jessie's sister .
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Powell married Violet Packenham, sister of Lord Longford, in 1934 after a brief acquaintanceship.
tell
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Doctor Milford must have told her sister the truth and she was taking it very hard.
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She tells her sister that she wants to quit, right now, tonight.
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So I just went and told my sister .
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He told the king the sisters went each night to an underground castle to dance with princes.
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I remembered that when he told me about his sister he said she sewed wonderfully well and made all of his shirts.
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It was what she had been told by the sisters at the convent.
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When I was four, I told my sister about the Creation, and she laughed in my face.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
big sister/brother
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Sit up like a big girl and eat your dinner.
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B got serious about basketball early, a first grader watching her big brother play and her father coach.
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He was my big brother and now he's dead.
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I say bigger brother, but the 880 is only really comparable with the 990 for resolution and performance.
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Soon after that I saw her big sister Barbie in Mrs Marriot's.
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Spider was a big brother, a mentor, a guidance counselor that put the whole world in his hands.
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Stewart was deeply moved to be back in the compelling presence of his big brother after five years.
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The box costs £8,000 and runs the same multiprotocol routing software as its big brothers.
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They will continue to decline in numbers and mergers with their big brothers are on the cards.
foster brother/sister
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Her foster brother's misinformation must be dispelled, but what did she say?
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I shan't be able to treat you now as if you were my foster sister, Jenny.
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She knew her foster brother was unreliable.
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The two play New York subway cops who also are foster brothers.
kid sister/brother
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He has a kid sister in the fourth grade at school.
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I suddenly realized Bobby was more than just an annoying kid brother who always wanted to use my stuff.
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And Terry was her kid brother.
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During their youth Jane was more likely to put her weight and invective behind brother Charles than her kid sister.
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He told me he asked his 4-year-old kid sister the same questions.
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I met his kid brother Ed, the flight nurse, back in Beckley, West Virginia, their hometown.
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Most of them were older than I was, and I was like a kid brother, always hanging around.
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Rule two, stop pretending you got engaged to my kid brother for anything but his money.
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Still the kid sister to him, she thought dismally.
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You may have heard of his kid brother.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Sister Mary Margaret
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I thought she would be sympathetic because she's a sister .
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We have to support our sisters in southern Africa.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I've a lot of respect for your sister .
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Its sister mission in Tumacacori was built of adobe and has crumbled under the weight of the years.
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Penelope, standing behind her sister , wished that a more exciting hotel would have been chosen.
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She and her sister Pam were both Miss West Virginia.
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She was drinking coffee, and her sister asked if Bernstein would like some.
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There are secret pains between the two sisters, but the movie never illuminates their problems.
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They assist their parents in feeding their new younger brothers and sisters and in defending them from predators such as snakes.
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They married in 1910 and she came to live at West park, where Father was farming with his sister , Hannah.