How to Use family tree in a Sentence

family tree

noun
  • A framed family tree hung on the wall.
  • Two years after Tom hung up the green and gold, the next branch of the family tree has taken root.
    Alex Murphy, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The latest variant, omicron, came out of nowhere on the family tree of the virus.
    Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • The brutal pruning of the family tree might as well be a mercy killing.
    Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • So break out the family tree and prepare to go digging.
    Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The Hulk family tree is truly something out of a soap opera.
    Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2024
  • This cocktail was designed to be a new branch on a big family tree.
    Aly Walansky, Forbes, 3 July 2021
  • They are being purchased for the family tree or for gifts.
    Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • That the emu has so many of these genes excites Whittaker, because this bird sits near the base of the bird family tree.
    Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 7 July 2021
  • The narcissist in your family tree might be a parent, an adult child, even an in-law.
    Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The more markers shared, the closer the relationship, and the smaller the family tree.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Inside the home, a white marker board hangs on a living room wall, bearing the branches of the family tree.
    Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Are all of our family trees already up for grabs now somewhere?
    WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
  • From there, officials built a family tree from the sample, which narrowed the search for the suspect down to the siblings.
    NBC News, 4 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • The Cyrus family tree branches out further than anyone knew!
    Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Greg’s father descended from one of several branches in Charles’ family tree, the one Charles started with his second wife.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024

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