How to Use descendant in a Sentence

descendant

1 of 2 adjective

• The pledge falls short of the $1 billion that descendant leaders had called on the Jesuits to raise.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2021
• The group was made up of friends of Ariana Rockefeller, the descendant grand-niece of the property's founder.
  — Avril Graham, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 May 2017
• The school hopes to draw in the descendant community in several ways.
  — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 31 July 2019
• The discovery in 2019 of the sunken remains of the ship also brings to the surface many questions among the local descendant community.
  — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
• Most of Colombia’s Afro-descendant peoples hail from the torrid zones along the Pacific and Caribbean coasts.
  — Patrick J. McDonnellforeign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2022
• The daughter of a free jazz saxophone player and a booking agent for afro-descendant music acts, Murray grew up in the music industry.
  — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2022
• The three ancestry options are hexbloods descendant from hags, dhampirs who have vampire blood and reborn who died and somehow returned.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 17 May 2021
• An in-law or stepchild is considered neither kindred nor descendant and will not inherit.
  — Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2020
• Reaching for disco—and its descendant rave-inspiring subgenres—may appear to be a safe bet for a sonic reset.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2020
• What starts off as trash can become priceless artifacts, and the more that’s left to be buried and preserved for decades or centuries or millennia, the more descendant generations can learn about the ones that came before.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 Aug. 2019
• In wrestling with the economic legacy of slavery, one scene shows a descendant reading Lewis' words while sitting in an antebellum mansion.
  — Kim Chandler, ajc, 21 Oct. 2022
• Unlike her forebear and descendant, Carmela was never written as a stock character.
  — Hazlitt, 4 Jan. 2023
• The two descendant groups have filed lawsuits over the Alamo project, seeking to be included in decisions on the treatment and disposition of uncovered remains.
  — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 17 June 2020
• Student and community activists were at the center of calls to return the remains to descendant communities.
  — Jacquelyne Germain, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022
• Seven decades later, that letter has been returned to a family descendant after resurfacing at a flea market in New York.
  — Sara Smart, CNN, 27 Jan. 2022
• In 2019, Georgetown students voted to create a reparations fund that would serve the descendant community.
  — Michela Moscufo, ABC News, 30 July 2022
• Though this year's homecoming won't be the same as a physical gathering, descendant Bryan Glover believes the pandemic has opened up their history to those outside the family.
  — Tiana Woodard, The Indianapolis Star, 2 July 2020
• Then, Brian West shared the private ceremony in a public post on Facebook, sparking protest from people who follow the Alamo, including leaders of two descendant groups.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 29 June 2021
• From Afro-descendant spiritualities to the revolution of the practice of resistance and love.
  — Vogue, 27 Oct. 2022
• Other plantations have started programs that seek to give back to their descendant communities.
  — Washington Post, 7 June 2021
• Today, local representatives from descendant communities visit the site twice a year and help guide the research.
  — Jon Hurdle, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2017
• All of them are Catholic, too, while the broader descendant community has more religious diversity.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 3 June 2021
• Members of the church's descendant community eventually hope to submit their DNA to assess biological kinship to those buried at the church.
  — Jacquelyne Germain, CNN, 7 Aug. 2022
• In some of his papers, Linde represents his eternal chaotic inflation model as a thick hedge of branching bulbs, each bulb a separate universe, connected to ancestor bulbs and descendant bulbs by thin tubes.
  — Alan Lightman, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2021
• Race was invented by European colonists to provide an excuse for the systematic oppression of African-descendant people.
  — Kelley Fanto Deetz, The Conversation, 23 Aug. 2019
• Another two represent the National Trust and have supported the efforts to include the descendant community.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 16 May 2022
• Our organization’s aim is not only to tell the full histories of sites but to foster the engagement of descendant communities and others in demanding a reckoning.
  — The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• And in a museum context like that, non-Indigenous scientists didn’t necessarily have to go to a descendant community and ask for permission to do their research.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2023
• The Petronio Álvarez festival is a powerful response to any attempt to ignore or dismiss Colombia’s Afro-descendant culture.
  — Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2022
• Harvard’s Peabody Museum holds the images and has gone to great lengths to develop practices that engage descendant communities and others who may have an interest in its some of its sensitive collections.
  — Deirdre Fernandes, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019

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descendant

2 of 2 noun

• Recent evidence supports the theory that birds are the modern descendants of dinosaurs.
• One of the famous inventor's descendants is also an inventor.
• Many people in this area are descendants of German immigrants.
• The Italian language is one of Latin's descendants.
• Have any of Winston Churchill’s descendants seen the film?
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2018
• The man was a descendant of the Foster family, for which the farm is named.
  — Steve Smith, Hartford Courant, 5 May 2022
• So will Lord Balfour, a descendant of the man who lent his name to the letter.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• Moab is a descendant of Lot, the nephew of our father Abraham.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2022
• This is the descendant of the language of Beowulf for crying out loud!
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2012
• Many of the famed Hemingway cats have six toes and are descendants of a cat once owned by the author.
  — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 9 Sep. 2017
• The suit was filed by the descendant of a family that deeded the land the monument sits on.
  — NBC News, 13 June 2020
• The remarks come as a new descendant of the omicron variant, known as BA.
  — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022
• Over two-thirds of Gazans are refugees and descendants of refugees from towns and villages in Israel.
  — Nathan Thrall, Time, 14 May 2018
• The lawsuits gave those descendants the choice to either sell their stake in the land or bid for it at auction.
  — Guthrie Scrimgeour, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
• Their origins and politics vary, and some are the descendants of refugees.
  — Daniel Beekman, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2017
• As some descendants watered the tree, others read all 272 names, one by one.
  — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2019
• What we were told by their descendants was, Don’t forget this, that Ernest and Mollie were in love.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
• The Hong Kong tarts are descendants of custard tarts from the United Kingdom, with pale, smooth tops and flaky crusts.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
• Each of Herman’s descendants get a unique name and number.
  — Alex Kingsbury, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• And Quindaro thrived for decades as a home for hundreds of former slaves and their descendants.
  — The Kansas City Star Editorial Board, kansascity, 15 June 2018
• Both lots are being put up for sale following the death of a Dickens descendant in the Portsmouth area.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2024
• Her house is still intact, and its tour guide is a direct descendant of hers.
  — Adam Gopnik, Town & Country, 20 May 2019
• Among them were more than 50 of Irene Morgan’s descendants.
  — Thomas M. Boyd, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2020
• Niza and Brilka are descendants of what once seemed set to be a dynasty of chocolatiers.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• These are not bad copies of Italian but its siblings, descendants of Latin in their own right.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2019
• Catalano hopes that someday someone will try to find the boy’s descendants, and that her research might help with the hunt.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2020
• And then there were those ancestors who lost all their living descendants to the wave.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2017
• Direct payments are only one method the state could use to support the descendants of slaves.
  — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• The descendants of North America’s great cities came to see value in the very act of trying to get along better.
  — Kathleen Duval, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
• The descendants of the Brotherton are alive and well today, sans casino.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024