Get to know Descendants better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like posterity.
Descendants meaning
plural of descendant
Synonyms of Descendants
Using Descendants
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of descendant
- Useful related words include: posterity, biological group.
- In the example corpus, descendants often appears in combinations such as: descendants of, the descendants, their descendants.
Context around Descendants
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Descendants
- In this selection, "descendants" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gu272, interviewed, mutant, down, weeping and posted stand out and add context to how "descendants" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and their descendants and for the descendants of iroijlaplap. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "descendants" sits close to words such as cables, charming and consolidated, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with descendants
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Celebrities like Bella and Gigi Hadid, Palestinian descendants, posted their support on Instagram. (13 words)
A heavily-debated idea, the task force opted to exclude Black immigrants who arrived after 1899 and their descendants. (19 words)
An effort by descendants of the emancipated to sue for what they had been promised — the legacy that had been lost — failed. (22 words)
A subtree of a tree T is a tree consisting of a node in T and all of its descendants in T.This is different from the formal definition of subtree used in graph theory, which is a subgraph that forms a tree – it need not include all descendants. (49 words)
According to the Sages, this was a prophetic reference to the End of Days, when Jacob's descendants will come to Mount Seir, the home of Edom, to deliver judgment against Esau's descendants for persecuting them throughout the millennia (see ). (41 words)
The analog of fitness for a quasispecies is the tendency of nearby relatives within the cloud to be well-connected, meaning that more of the mutant descendants will be viable and give rise to further descendants within the cloud. (39 words)
But if the land on which the university rests was acquired unjustly, then why not give it back — or least pay back rent to the descendants of the indigenous tribes? (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
Georgetown University will launch an initiative supporting community-based projects with GU272 descendants after a student referendum in April voted in favor of a reconciliation fund to benefit the descendants.
That law stated that there are four iroijlaplap (paramount chief) domains in the Ralik Chain, including one for the descendants of Iroijlaplap Jeimata and one for the descendants of Iroijlaplap Laelan.
These humble beginnings have led to the annual Myall Creek Massacre memorial each June long weekend, when descendants of the Weraerai people killed, as well as descendants of the perpetrators, come together to remember the past.
According to the Sages, this was a prophetic reference to the End of Days, when Jacob's descendants will come to Mount Seir, the home of Edom, to deliver judgment against Esau's descendants for persecuting them throughout the millennia (see ).
Anne and her descendants were to be in the line of succession after William and Mary, and they were to be followed by any descendants of William by a future marriage.
A subtree of a tree T is a tree consisting of a node in T and all of its descendants in T.This is different from the formal definition of subtree used in graph theory, which is a subgraph that forms a tree – it need not include all descendants.
Beginning in 1993, researchers interviewed descendants of Monticello slaves for the Getting Word Project, a collection of oral history that provided much new insight into the lives of slaves at Monticello and their descendants.
Many are the descendants of slaves brought to Mexico, others the descendants of immigrants from Cuba, the United States, Haiti, and other countries.
Moot Hall Museum (in Elstow ) has a record of John's descendants, down to the nineteenth century but as of September 2013, no verifiable trace of later descendants has been found. citation.
The analog of fitness for a quasispecies is the tendency of nearby relatives within the cloud to be well-connected, meaning that more of the mutant descendants will be viable and give rise to further descendants within the cloud.
Adler’s descendants, along with a number of non-profits and Jewish organizations named as plaintiffs in the class action, say in the complaint the painting is “in the wrongful possession” of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
After the ceremony, all the guests and presiding officials attended a reception hosted by the city of Neustadt, and each family of the descendants each received a piece of “Strictly GI” to take back home.
A heavily-debated idea, the task force opted to exclude Black immigrants who arrived after 1899 and their descendants.
And in the past, most researchers haven’t consulted with groups like Native tribes or African descendants before studying the remains of possible ancestors.
An effort by descendants of the emancipated to sue for what they had been promised — the legacy that had been lost — failed.
Arab citizens, most of whom are descendants of Palestinians who remained in Israel after the 1948 war surrounding its creation, make up about a fifth of the country’s population.
A short film by well-known Australian documentary maker Max Uechtritz – himself born in Rabaul, and a founding member of the Montevideo Maru Committee – was shown, which saw many of the victims’ descendants weeping throughout.
But if the land on which the university rests was acquired unjustly, then why not give it back — or least pay back rent to the descendants of the indigenous tribes?
Celebrities like Bella and Gigi Hadid, Palestinian descendants, posted their support on Instagram.
Col. Brent Echard, 86th Operation Group commander, also spoke to the descendants representing the 86th AW thanking them for their ancestors' service.
Common combinations with descendants
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- descendants of 85×
- the descendants 42×
- their descendants 25×
- are descendants 10×
- his descendants 8×
- direct descendants 7×
- descendants will 6×
- descendants the 6×
- descendants and 6×
- descendants in 5×