How to Use ancestral in a Sentence

ancestral

adjective

• Many tribes across the country have sought to acquire their ancestral land and co-manage public land.
  — Janie Har, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2022
• The debauchery gets cut short when the vampires struggle to slumber and realize that housekeeping swept away their ancestral dirt.
  — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2024
• The actor, host, and avid traveler has long been known for his love of the European nation, which also happens to be his ancestral homeland.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2022
• Yavapai-Apache had been purchasing the land parcels since the 1990s with the goal of swapping them to rebuild more of its ancestral lands.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2024
• Our ancestral lands, as anyone who has read James Fennimore Cooper may be aware, are in the Northeast.
  — WSJ, 17 June 2022
• At the edge, low sheds and long piers perpetuated the island’s ancestral role as handler of material stuff: fish, lumber, sugar, grain, steel, ships, pianos.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Nov. 2024
• Inspired by travels in her ancestral homeland, the artist made semiabstract, mixed-media pictures of members of the Surma and Mursi tribes.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
• Regardless, Louis’s countrymen held him and his victory up as symbols of ancestral excellence, and a new global tradition was born.
  — Miriam Kamil, JSTOR Daily, 20 Nov. 2024
• It was specially recorded within an ancestral forest in the UK, and the sound of birds twittering is known to offer relief from burnout, mental fatigue and stress.
  — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
• The region is also part of the ancestral lands of the native Ute Tribes.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
• The 300-member tribe has fought to get at least part of their ancestral lands back ever since.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 18 June 2024
• Now, plans are being finalized to lay the king to rest in ancestral land.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2022
• The star of the space is a mid-18th-century French Baroque chest-on-chest that's flanked by a pair of late Qing dynasty ancestral portraits.
  — Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 31 May 2023
• The food in her kitchen in North Homeland tasted like that of her ancestral homeland.
  — Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2023
• But Matobo is home to many gifts—as an ancestral home of the African Bushmen, the San people, there are over 2,000 sites of rock art to take in.
  — Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2023
• The canoes were found in a section of lakebed in the ancestral territory of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2024
• The waters of the Jones Falls might have improved enough to trigger otters to return to an ancestral area.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2024
• Instead, it's been argued that this moment marked the return of Jews to their ancestral land.
  — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 12 Nov. 2023
• Dam removals, such as the Bloede on the Patapsco in 2018, have allowed the shad to return to their ancestral waters.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2023
• But there is a small crack in the landscape that could bring shattering change to this historic ancestral home.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
• This is the second time in recent years the Wiyot tribe has acquired ancestral lands.
  — Freddy Brewster, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022
• The Spencers, known today as the ancestral line to which Diana, Princess of Wales belonged, were one such family.
  — Allan Massie, wsj.com, 14 Apr. 2023
• Utes from Colorado and Utah where pushed off their ancestral lands and onto the reservation.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
• The wave is of great ancestral importance to Native Hawaiians, and respect must be paid and earned.
  — Talya Minsberg Gabriella Angotti-Jones, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2022
• That ancestral home is in the village of Chilham and is itself called Chilham Castle.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
• Shrimp boils are nice and all, but, for the Friends' purposes, returning to ancestral ground is even better.
  — Chris Vognar, Chron, 17 Mar. 2023
• This was a reference to the family’s ancestral home back in the county of Kent in southeast England.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
• Perhaps on a visit to my ancestral homeland, those cracks would begin to fill.
  — Iman Hariri-Kia, Allure, 3 Oct. 2023
• In exchange for a wad of spit and $1,000, the company gave users reports on their ancestral makeup and data about a few health risks.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
• One highlight in the show is an ancient depiction of a lacrosse game in Choctaw ancestral land in what is now Alabama.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024