How to Use inheritance in a Sentence

inheritance

noun

• The buildings are part of the city's architectural inheritance.
• She began her own business with the inheritance she got from her grandfather.
• He left sizable inheritances to his children.
• They were told a copy of the inheritance agreement was kept in storage away from Seoul and would take weeks to retrieve.
  — Victoria Kim, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• This spouse wants to keep an inheritance secret from the other spouse.
  — Liz Weston, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2023
• Prior to inheritance changes, Graceland was opened to the public for tours in 1982.
  — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 21 Mar. 2023
• Call it hopeful naïveté, call it instinct or call it a kind of inheritance, but the two young actors, then just 19 and 20, were right.
  — Cat Cardenas, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• But in this case the inheritance is not about the country house or the Old Master but about a philanthropic heritage.
  — Benjamin Soskis, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2022
• Of course, any money the inheritance earns would be taxable.
  — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2023
• The goal of leaving an inheritance is laudable—full stop.
  — Tim Maurer, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• The girls' inheritance is a beloved but ramshackle inn located in the (very white) back of beyond in rural Maine.
  — Carole V. Bell, NPR, 5 Mar. 2024
• But my father thought I might be hoodwinked out of my inheritance.
  — Pat Kapowich, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2024
• While William, the Prince of Wales, is no stranger to the public eye, the conversation of his throne inheritance thrusts him even further into the spotlight.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
• Rates depend on the size of your inheritance, state tax laws and your relationship with the deceased.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
• This inheritance will belong to your wife and her siblings.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
• The same day as my visit, the judge in the inheritance dispute ruled that the principessa would be evicted from the villa to facilitate its sale.
  — Monika Schmitter, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
• The ethics around avoiding taxes are themselves a form of inheritance.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• She was cut off from the family business, as well as her inheritance.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2023
• Their testimony and inheritance is worth half that of a man.
  — Marc Malkin, Variety, 16 Nov. 2022
• What is the purpose of inheritance for the next generation?
  — Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• The Mexican food eatery began as a $2,500 inheritance left to owner Rod Wilkin and his wife, Susan.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 7 Feb. 2023
• So fraught was the relationship that his father once threatened to cut him out of his inheritance.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• What once opened eyes comes to seem preloaded behind them, as if part of the general human inheritance.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2022
• How to ease the tax burdens of a proper diamond inheritance.
  — Jill Newman, Town & Country, 20 Jan. 2023
• Upon the death of his father, the man became embroiled in a bitter dispute with his brothers and sisters over the inheritance.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2022
• Once the inheritance is received, the only way to give it away becomes gifting it, as Zwicker mentioned.
  — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• Recently, a North Dakota woman was charged with killing her boyfriend to get his inheritance.
  — Christine Fletcher, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• More than three decades ago, Paul Kaufmann received a remarkable inheritance: pieces of a skull thought to belong to Ludwig van Beethoven.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
• In his series, the drama unfolds around the inheritance left by one of the world’s most prolific wine authorities.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
• Because those rights were passed down through an ancestral trust, the white men who married Osage women were in line for an inheritance.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024