Descended in a sentence

Alpacas are descended from wild vicuna ancestors, while domesticated llamas are descended from wild guanaco ancestors, though a considerable amount of hybridization between the two species has occurred.

Half of these Irish Americans were descended from Ulster people, and half were descended from the people of Connacht, Leinster and Munster.

These are the Gaelic languages (i.e. the Irish language and Scottish Gaelic - both descended from Old Irish ), and the Brittonic languages (i.e. Welsh and the Breton language - both descended from Old Brittonic ).

While seals were historically thought to have descended from two ancestral lines, molecular evidence supports them as a monophyletic lineage (descended from one ancestral line).

Abrams' mystery box storytelling approach can be effective, but in the sequels, the sheer amount of running mysteries descended into a narrative mess.

A hush descended upon the city at midday, and for sixty seconds, the busy station was held in a state of contemplative sorrow.

A local grand final descended into chaos after a footy player was given a red card for knocking out a rival player in ugly scenes.

Another passenger, Yulia, said she started to write a goodbye message to her husband as the plane rapidly descended.

A pall of gloom descended on the school.

A sense of hope descended on Maine last week as the leaders of our state’s tribal nations addressed a joint session of the Legislature.

As we descended for our dive (into) the deeper area, this is what we saw,” he said.

Before her discovery, Charlotte’s family had pleaded with the public to share her photo widely in hopes of finding her, even as reporters and rescuers descended on the park, a popular area, with dense forest and undergrowth, and a small lake.

Burning Man has descended into chaos as fed-up revelers snapped and fought during the mass exodus from the washout festival.

But it has descended into chaos, with the study’s author allegedly hounded out of the university, stripped of the findings she collected and barred from publishing them amid claims of transphobia.

But while Emily remained poker faced, her co-workers on screen gradually descended into hilarity as they were unable to hide their laughing fits onscreen.

By this sixth installment, the lore of the Nightmare On Elm Street movies had become impossible to navigate, the character of Freddy himself had descended into cringe-worthy self-parody and, most egregiously, even the A-list cameos didn’t make sense.

Cops and forensics descended on a Glasgow Starbucks after a 'break-in'.

Crowd descended on Ballycastle for a jam-packed weekend of activities ahead of the traditional Ould Lammas Fair days on the last Monday and Tuesday of August.

Dave Hollis, 47, the former head of global distribution at Disney, was said to have descended into obsession about social media clout after giving up his high-powered career.

Descended from a long line of Orthodox-Jewish tailors in Russia, he was born in Missouri in 1903 and relocated to New York when he was twelve.