How do you use Inherit in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like get or acquire, plus the exact meaning.
Inherit in a sentence
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Inherit meaning
- To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.
- To come into an inheritance.
Inherit vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Inherit
- The main meaning on this page is: To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death. | To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death. | To come into an inheritance.
- Useful related words include: come into, get, acquire, receive.
- Possible Dutch translations are: erven.
- In the example corpus, inherit often appears in combinations such as: to inherit, inherit the, will inherit.
Context around Inherit
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Inherit
- In this selection, "inherit" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, generations, units, mitochondrial, nuclear and italian stand out and add context to how "inherit" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and will inherit the land and antony would inherit that jersey. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "inherit" sits close to words such as amplify, archdiocese and bangor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with inherit
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
No right to inherit property. (5 words)
Current acquisitions of WPC units inherit existing debt layered by duration and cost. (13 words)
My question is: Why and where and when did we inherit this new attitude? (14 words)
Following her death on 8 September, there was much speculation over who would inherit the Queen’s troop of horses, considering the Queen herself inherited her father King George VI’s stock when she ascended the throne in 1952. (39 words)
So if any person in the line lost the Italian citizenship and then had a child, that child did not inherit Italian citizen jure sanguinis, except if the child could inherit the citizenship from the other parent. (37 words)
In order to properly understand this message, we must look back a few to when Avram first learns that his descendants will be as plentiful as the stars and will inherit the Land. (33 words)
Here are the unclaimed estates in Worcestershire - could you be entitled to inherit a fortune? (15 words)
My question is: Why and where and when did we inherit this new attitude? (14 words)
Example sentences (20)
You inherit mitochondrial DNA only from your mom, while you inherit nuclear DNA from both of your parents.
So if any person in the line lost the Italian citizenship and then had a child, that child did not inherit Italian citizen jure sanguinis, except if the child could inherit the citizenship from the other parent.
And even if you inherit a gene associated with cancer, that doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed to get it.
As a result, Moon miners live in a semi-slavery system in which new generations inherit the work debts of their parents.
As firstborn sons of leaders of their two nations, Sokka and Zuko must try to show that they’re capable of taking their fathers’ place once they inherit the leadership.
Before either of them knew it, Dougal was proposing on the farm he was eager to inherit and run with her by his side, and Minerva passionately accepted.
Complicating the already daunting job of raising two boys, Clark and Lois worry about whether their sons, Jonathan and Jordan, could inherit their father’s Kryptonian superpowers as they grow older.
Current acquisitions of WPC units inherit existing debt layered by duration and cost.
Despite being a mass murderer, Itachi Uchiha has a fascinating fashion sense, even if his younger brother Sasuke Uchiha didn't inherit this.
Following her death on 8 September, there was much speculation over who would inherit the Queen’s troop of horses, considering the Queen herself inherited her father King George VI’s stock when she ascended the throne in 1952.
Here are the unclaimed estates in Worcestershire - could you be entitled to inherit a fortune?
In order to properly understand this message, we must look back a few to when Avram first learns that his descendants will be as plentiful as the stars and will inherit the Land.
It would have been highly unlikely for Deku to inherit One for All in such a circumstance.
My mother could play the piano by ear, but I didn’t inherit that gift, so she enlisted a piano teacher to instruct me.
My question is: Why and where and when did we inherit this new attitude?
No right to inherit property.
Oftentimes, the default is the children will inherit real estate equally, each owning an equal undivided interest as tenants-in-common.
One insider told MailOnline today that it is not out of the question that Ms Ratcliff could benefit from Harris' will and inherit some of his estimated £15million fortune.
Some were wondering whether Antony would inherit that jersey when he moved from Ajax back in the summer, having worn the same digits during his spell in Amsterdam.
TD Cowen analysts estimate that Millennials and Generation Z (or “Zoomers”) stand to inherit in collective wealth by the year 2050.
Common combinations with inherit
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: