How to Use "brethren" with Example Sentences

1. Our dear brethren and sisters .
2. But their more ideological brethren are better positioned to win the day politically .
3. It became a branch of the evangelical united brethren in 1946 .
4. Some of my brethren may shun work but they all like to invest .
5. Nor have we been wanting in attention to our british brethren .