Wondering how to use Paternal in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as maternal or agnatic.
Paternal in a sentence
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Paternal meaning
- Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family.
- Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
Synonyms of Paternal
Paternal vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Paternal
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family. | Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family. | Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
- Useful related words include: maternal, agnatic, agnate, filial.
- Possible Dutch translations are: vaderlijk.
- In the example corpus, paternal often appears in combinations such as: his paternal, paternal grandfather, paternal grandmother.
Context around Paternal
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 4 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Paternal
- In this selection, "paternal" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, aunt, charles, somewhat, grandmother, grandfather and grandparents stand out and add context to how "paternal" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a somewhat paternal role and and his paternal grandmother s. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "paternal" sits close to words such as adhering, adrenaline and advert, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with paternal
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
His paternal instincts came out again. (6 words)
Daniel Martin is Ricky’s other paternal sibling. (8 words)
Paternal history has a 75 per cent higher risk. (9 words)
Govanhill is no longer Murphy's doorstep as he's moved just outside of Glasgow but he grew up the area: his paternal grandmother and his father lived there and so he spent time in the community from early childhood. (40 words)
His Grace expressed the paternal love and blessings of the Archbishop, congratulated all of the youth for their many accomplishments and offered them encouragement to continue to stay strong in their Orthodox Faith and to keep Christ in their hearts. (40 words)
Headlines such as “Greek terrorists destroyed Ataturk’s paternal home” of the and the publication of a series of fake photos of the incident sparked “spontaneous” demonstrations in Taksim Square in the afternoon of the same day. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
The paternal aunt, paternal niece and paternal granddaughter, referred to as odalkvinna, all had the right to inherit property from a deceased man.
Voight's paternal grandfather and his paternal grandmother's parents were Slovak immigrants, citation while his maternal grandfather and his maternal grandmother's parents were German immigrants.
Charles’ paternal grandmother, Princess Alice of Greece, is buried at the Monastery of Mary Magdalene on the Mount of Olives.
Daniel Martin is Ricky’s other paternal sibling.
For instance, my grandfather had eight wives, that’s paternal and my maternal grandfather had about seven or eight wives too.
Govanhill is no longer Murphy's doorstep as he's moved just outside of Glasgow but he grew up the area: his paternal grandmother and his father lived there and so he spent time in the community from early childhood.
Headlines such as “Greek terrorists destroyed Ataturk’s paternal home” of the and the publication of a series of fake photos of the incident sparked “spontaneous” demonstrations in Taksim Square in the afternoon of the same day.
He was preceded in death by his maternal and paternal grandparents.
His Grace expressed the paternal love and blessings of the Archbishop, congratulated all of the youth for their many accomplishments and offered them encouragement to continue to stay strong in their Orthodox Faith and to keep Christ in their hearts.
His paternal grandfather was one of the world’s richest bankers whose first home was a two-roomed cottage in Lochee.
His paternal grandmother was Mary O'Hara, who died in 1934.
His paternal grandparents were both Jewish but his father was brought up without religion and his mother was a Baptist.
His paternal instincts came out again.
In addition to his parents and sister, Nick is also survived by his paternal grandparents, Sheldon and Elaine Feinstein, and his maternal grandfather, Dennis Harper.
It would actually work as the perfect way to end the Batverse series of movies, with Batman taking on a somewhat paternal role.
Jaji added, “With pressure from in-laws, infidelity can cause paternal dispute and it is very traumatic and killing.
Meanwhile, Tunisian Jews like my paternal grandfather were conscripted to detention camps and forced labor in a gulag, where conditions were barbaric.
Mohan, who reached his paternal home in SaharsaтАЩs Pachgachhia, said both Krishnaiah and his family suffered because of the lynching incident.
My paternal grandmother, Clare, was a frail lady; she was involved in a bad car accident in the 1950s, before I was born.
Paternal history has a 75 per cent higher risk.
Common combinations with paternal
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: