Examples of ancestry in a Sentence
They claim to be of noble ancestry.
a person of unknown ancestry
She claims to be able to trace her ancestry all the way back to the earliest settlers.
Recent Examples of ancestry from the Web
Jordan’s ruling Hashemite dynasty, with ancestry said to go back to Prophet Muhammad, derives much of its legitimacy from custodianship over the shrine.
Naper Aero Club/Aero Estates traces its ancestry to the 1950s and three couples: Alvin and Viola Beidelman, Vern and Mary Kathryn Finzer and Harold and Eva White, the latter of whom founded the Naperville Sun.
Ayyadurai is talking, of course, about the brouhaha the conservative Boston Herald set off in 2012 in a report that an academic directory back in the 1980s and 1990s had listed Warren as a minority member due to a Native American ancestry.
In a sign of how far the party has moved from its origins, Monday’s race was the first pitting two candidates of Moroccan ancestry.
There were rumors about his ties to the drug trade, and his Syrian ancestry fueled hose who linked him to the Hezbollah terrorist group.
Her mother, Victoria Schlicker, a telephone operator, was of German ancestry.
In 2013, US District Judge G. Murray Snow ruled that Maricopa County's handling of people of Latino ancestry was not thorough enforcement of immigration laws -- but instead amounted to racial and ethnic profiling.
Now, the younger generation with mixed Darug and European ancestry are trying to protect and revive the culture—a difficult undertaking in an increasingly modern society.
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First Known Use of ancestry
ANCESTRY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of ancestry for English Language Learners
: a person's ancestors : the people who were in your family in past times
ANCESTRY Defined for Kids
Definition of ancestry for Students
: a person's ancestors
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