Want to use Descendants correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning.
Descendants in a sentence
Related words
Descendants meaning
plural of descendant
Synonyms of Descendants
Example sentences (20)
He held to the promise of descendants beginning with a son by his wife Sarah to ultimately becoming a great nation.
My father, my siblings, and I are descendants of the Cherokee Deer clan through my ancestor, Nancy GaHoga Lightfoot.
The six descendants of Malcolm Glazer, who died in 2014, together control 96% of Manchester United’s voting stock.
The descendants of mining pioneers Lang Hancock and Peter Wright have been pitted against each other for decades.
A heavily-debated idea, the task force opted to exclude Black immigrants who arrived after 1899 and their descendants.
Many of those who lined up to touch the box were descendants of residential school survivors, or survivors themselves.
Those features contributed to the sing-songy cadence heard among Scandinavian immigrants and their descendants.
He succeeded Nicholas Brooke, who in 2005 acquired with Dominic Hazlehurst from the descendants of the brand’s founder.
On April 9, 2021, Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn announced the return of the land to the Bruce’s descendants.
Some descendants work there, cooking and cleaning for wedding parties and other events for the white guests of the island.
On March 17, 1821, the Maniots, descendants of the Spartans on the Mani peninsula in Peloponnese, declared war in Areopoli.
An effort by descendants of the emancipated to sue for what they had been promised — the legacy that had been lost — failed.
Villalobos will also discuss plans for future interpretation of the history of this area in conjunction with the descendants.
The names are not being released to protect the privacy of the people and their descendants, it added.
Mills would only find thick forests and the descendants of mammals that survived the asteroid event.
The Afro-descendants of Costa Rica have played a significant role in shaping the cultural and historical landscape of the country.
Celebrities like Bella and Gigi Hadid, Palestinian descendants, posted their support on Instagram.
According to him, it is a fight to retrieve the soul of the future of Nigeria and its descendants.
Disney's Descendants: Rise of Red revealed that Brandy's Cinderella the brand new original movie.
But nearly all reported genocides have been perpetrated by white, nominally Christian, Europeans or Anglo-Saxons and their descendants.
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×
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