How to Use ancestry in a Sentence

ancestry

noun

• She claims to be able to trace her ancestry all the way back to the earliest settlers.
• They claim to be of noble ancestry.
• Freeman’s ancestry traces back to the Mormon pioneers who sank roots in Mesa in the late 1870s.
  — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2024
• Doing so requires unearthing data for a large number of people on slaveholder ancestry, current wealth and other factors such as age and education.
  — Ashwini Sehgal, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
• The school’s first pupils in the 1870s were white, often of German ancestry.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2022
• Some breeds of dogs in East Asia appear to have retained this ancestry to the present day.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 June 2022
• Most are Black and can trace their ancestry to parts of the world spanning sub-Saharan Africa through the Mediterranean.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
• Pisces is your fourth house of home, family, ancestry, and land.
  — Kirah Tabourn, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Feb. 2023
• The tool is available to anyone who wants to find a DNA match or discover their ancestry.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
• Number one on the list is Germany, where 20.2% of people claim ancestry.
  — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 29 Dec. 2022
• Genes do not stay in the lanes of common ancestry but can move much more unpredictably, like zigzagging pieces on a Plinko board.
  — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
• If the police hacked into one of these ancestry databases, that would be a problem.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• Three of the group’s members are targeted by the Nazis owing to their Jewish ancestry.
  — Vulture, 13 Nov. 2023
• The most common interpretation is to find out the ancestry of mixed breed dogs.
  — Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2022
• It’s about what is viewed as the problematic aspects of your background, and that is African ancestry.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 24 Aug. 2022
• To see the full ancestry income story, visit this link.
  — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 4 Jan. 2023
• But much of Irsina’s global appeal has to do with ancestry.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
• Woods' mother once referred to her ancestry as Thai, Chinese and Dutch.
  — Jonathan Landrum Jr., Quartz, 13 Feb. 2024
• What his color is, what is ancestry is, doesn’t matter.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2022
• He was born in Sweden of Georgian ancestry while his parents were born in Turkey.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2024
• However, Oberon hid her Sri Lankan ancestry and passed for white.
  — Town & Country, 12 Mar. 2023
• At one point, the book alludes to Rhinelander v. Rhinelander, the 1925 divorce trial in which a white man accused his wife of obscuring her mixed-race ancestry.
  — Alice McDermott, New York Times, 22 June 2022
• Later in life, Mayhew would say that his desire to paint within a landscape mode came from both parts of this ancestry.
  — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 27 Sep. 2024
• These errors were about 20% more common in the 41 cell lines from people with recent African ancestry than in other groups, the team reports.
  — Byjocelyn Kaiser, science.org, 21 Nov. 2022
• Twelve countries around the world have at least 1% of Ohio residents claiming ancestry.
  — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 4 Jan. 2023
• The Norwegian princess can trace her ancestry back to Britain’s Queen Victoria.
  — Mark Lewis, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
• Chemical tests could reveal the diets and ancestry of the people.
  — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• Parabon’s research traced the crime scene DNA sample’s ancestry to a specific region of Italy.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 25 July 2022
• Next, the research team hopes to study other genetic databases to see if the same link holds true for people of other ancestries.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
• Deep in many cats’ ancestry was the practice of avoiding still or stagnant water in order to avoid toxins.
  — Dallas News, 13 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024