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"Descendant" in a Sentence (21 examples)
I am a descendant of Israel's famous King David.
She was the youngest descendant of the king.
He's a descendant of Queen Victoria!
She's a descendant of King George!
I am a descendant of Charlemagne. And so are you.
I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets; the deserted tomb of the Hydes, an old and exalted family whose last direct descendant had been laid within its black recesses many decades before my birth.
He was a descendant of Julius Caesar.
All agreed that the spot was fatal to the Ravenswood family; and that to drink of the waters of the well, or even approach its brink, was ominous to a descendant of that house.
It might seem as if the ancient founder of the castle were bestriding the thunderstorm, and proclaiming his displeasure at the reconciliation of his descendant with the enemy of his house.
Italian is a direct descendant of Latin.
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The elevator resumed its descendant trajectory.
Eagle descendant, or descending. See DESCENDANT, and Pl. 22, fig. 6. Eagle descendant, displayed. See Pl. 22, fig. 7. Eagle displayed, recursant. See DISPLAYED RECURSANT, and Pl. 22, […]
Azure, surmounting a cloud argent, an American eagle descendant, wings endorsed proper, between his beak four lightning streaks, […]
Power in the kingdom is transferred in a descendant manner.
Pitiable sportster, / To choose thy prey so humbly, to seduce / A beggar wench who hath not the high pride / Descendant still from kingly ancestors, / To keep her royal place.
Meronyms: issue, line, progeny; family; clan
The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.
This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.
Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.
English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.
The direct descendant of this form is the Slavic aorist: Sb.-Cr. nȍsī, dȍnosī.
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