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.
• The most common interpretation is to find out the ancestry of mixed breed dogs.
  — Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2022
• Another could be to follow in the footsteps of ancestry data firm 23andMe.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2022
• For others, ancestry has led to new geographic connections.
  — NBC news, 15 Sep. 2022
• Now, more than seven decades later, Albino has been found thanks to help from an online ancestry test, old photos and newspaper clippings.
  — CBS News, 23 Sep. 2024
• Fossora addresses legacy and ancestry in a different way, with some of her most vivid songwriting and most daring arrangements to date.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2022
• De Los Angeles’s grandmother erased evidence of her African ancestry from her own tresses.
  — Maria Marrone, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2022
• Po’s own curiosity about his ancestry sparked his efforts to practice taíno culture as an act of resistance and redefinition of identity.
  — Palabra, al, 16 Sep. 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
• Number one on the list is Germany, where 20.2% of people claim ancestry.
  — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 29 Dec. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This is why the name is more widely used, though areas of great Celtic ancestry such as Scotland and Wales still refer to the celebration as Beltane.
  — Kate Franke, Woman's Day, 25 Apr. 2023
• Another is to add a check box for Middle Eastern or North African ancestry.
  — Kyle Peterson, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
• What’s more, the term Afro-Latino is often used to describe Latinx people with African ancestry.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 22 Aug. 2023
• Michigan, which has the highest percentage of residents with Middle Eastern ancestry among all states, according to census data, is seen as a swing state, which Arab American activists are trying to capitalize on.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024