How to Use family tree in a Sentence

family tree

noun

• A framed family tree hung on the wall.
• Such a fate should have been enough to make Gannibal the star of his family tree.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
• On the other side are 19 cousins from among the Cardin family tree who want to sell the company.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2023
• That one branch of her family tree had been in Mexico since the 1700s.
  — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2022
• Those points are then used to build a family tree for each person.
  — Dan Springer, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2023
• Royal family tree:Who will ascend to the throne after the queen's death?
  — USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
• To do this, though, the banana family tree must be clearer.
  — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• But their prior lives in Italy were nothing more to me than the names of towns and ancestors on a family tree.
  — David Botti, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• But Norton certainly isn’t a one-man branch in the family tree.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
• Natalie Diggs rebound the book and spent the next two decades using the Bible’s notes as a guide to build her family tree.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
• Are all of our family trees already up for grabs now somewhere?
  — WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
• At a glass patio table overlooking the bay, Packard shows you one of his plot charts: a graph that looks like a family tree.
  — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
• But while Archaeopteryx is also from the Paraves group, some doubt where Archaeopteryx fits in the family tree.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2022
• Though Phillippe is not a descendant of Queen Victoria, the two do still share a family tree.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 23 May 2022
• Then take time to trace your dad's family tree to get a deeper look at your family's past and present.
  — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 29 Apr. 2022
• Red pandas are the sole survivors of this mammalian family tree.
  — Fox News, 11 Aug. 2022
• And like her mother, Leanna McGee, 39, has taken up the mantle as holder of the family tree.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• That's exactly the kind of last-minute errand that happens around a family tree.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 28 Nov. 2022
• Tracing the branches of the family tree isn’t Fredriksson’s concern.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 June 2023
• Who is the youngest Kardashian?:A detailed look at the Kardashian-Jenner family tree.
  — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2023
• Think of it as a family tree for the virus, which is grouped into different lineages, like branches on a tree.
  — The Conversation, Fortune Well, 12 Sep. 2023
• So what's the breakdown of Caitlyn Jenner's family tree?
  — Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2022
• By my count, the Reuters team would have had to scrutinize the family trees of nearly 600 people to reach its conclusions.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
• For more than a decade, Yamona Pierce was on a genealogical search for the names of relatives to fill out her family tree.
  — Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2022
• And alumni of his classes make up a far-reaching, still-growing family tree.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• Birds evolved from small and feathery raptor-like creatures forming a branch on the dinosaur family tree.
  — Evan Hecht, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2022
• It’s one unruly family tree, and a viewer will easily get lost amid the overgrowth.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 3 May 2022
• Just mail off a little bit of your spit in a tube and the company's lab can reveal the details of your ethnic background and trace the many branches of your family tree.
  — WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
• There are a lot of painful relationships in this particular branch of the family tree.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Adriane Rozier, who met Ms. Mason at a retreat for Buddhists of color, joined the group to learn more about her family tree.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024