Heirs
"Heirs" in a Sentence (10 examples)
The English are the heirs of freedom.
The property was divided equally among the heirs.
Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation.
It was an intricate scheme to defraud the rightful heirs.
People of the world - the scale of our challenge is great. The road ahead will be long. But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom.
Tom died without heirs.
In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the Regency.
So I say to you, the people of Europe, don't forget who you are. You are the heirs to a struggle for freedom. You're the Germans, the French, the Dutch, the Belgians, the Luxembourgers, the Italians -- and yes, the British -- who rose above old divisions and put Europe on the path to union.
"In rolling ages there shall come the day / when heirs of old Assaracus shall tame / Phthia and proud Mycene to obey, / and terms of peace to conquered Greeks proclaim."
Nobody dies without heirs.
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