How to Use lineage in a Sentence

lineage

noun
  • He's had uncles and cousins that have had girls but in his lineage, there has not been a girl.
    Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Kaho‘ano comes from a hula lineage, and so leis have a special place in her heart.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
  • The bagel’s lineage stretches back much further than New York.
    Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023
  • And what’s drawn people to trying is less a clear lineage than a shared feeling.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Unlike Charcot, Wells is able to fuse with her subject, to join her in a lineage.
    Hannah Zeavin, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
  • These are societies in which lineage is passed down from the mother.
    Eliza Anyangwe and Melissa Mahtani, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023
  • This guy who murdered him took his whole lineage from him, from us, by cutting off his life.
    USA Today, 26 June 2023
  • Today, the brand builds on this lineage with the invention of random guilloche, a world first.
    Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 25 May 2023
  • Taken together, the viewer is able to trace the artistic lineage of the polychrome style.
    Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Out There Screaming aims to counter and complicate that lineage.
    Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Walsh is always aware that opponents are out to defeat him in part because of his lineage and the Ali name.
    José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2023
  • By the last few million years of the dinosaurs’ reign, however, the larger T. rex replaced these lineages.
    Asher Elbein, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • That was three times more likely to have come from the defendant or a male relative from the lineage of the defendant.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Swift’s alteration of the song in her re-recording follows a lineage of other pop stars doing the same.
    Maria Sherman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • Also, sometimes there’s beauty in that lineage and there’s a strength in that lineage; there’s a resilience.
    Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2023
  • Kelly was born and raised in Norwood, Ohio and came from a lineage of public officials.
    Sharon Coolidge, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
  • With a lineage stretching back more than 75 years, the E-class remains one of the brand's core products and serves a range of roles around the world, from taxicab to luxury cocoon.
    Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 24 July 2023
  • The test offers a basic snapshot of your ancestry and lineage.
    Savanna Shoemaker, Verywell Health, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The lineage of starring SMU wide receivers was in attendance.
    Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Little is known about John Dutton II—most notably, his parental lineage.
    Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Courtesy of Penguin Random House The current crop of science fiction can trace its lineage to the online services of the '90s.
    Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 11 July 2023
  • The result of the trio having to talk out the truth of Washington’s family lineage was something that did the opposite of what her parents feared.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2023
  • In the lineage that led to birds, the new analysis found a consistent decrease in the maximum annual growth rate.
    Anna Gibbs, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Their father’s garb is more than 100 years old and connects to their grandmother’s royal lineage.
    Devine Blacksher, Essence, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Studies show that human and chimpanzee lice diverged sometime around 5.5 million years ago, roughly the same era as the lineages of their hosts.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Glass is interested in tracing his lineage back to Africa.
    Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Barylambda With the non-avian dinosaurs gone, some mammal lineages evolved big body sizes fast, among them an extinct group of mammals called pantodonts.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
  • He’s become truly adept at these breezy earworms laced with sweet nothings, and this is directly in that lineage.
    Heran Mamo, Billboard, 29 June 2023
  • In the Formica ants, the single-queen and multi-queen colonies don’t seem to be splitting into independent lineages.
    Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2023
  • The actress, who caught some heat last year for her claims that nepotism babies were under attack, made space in her speech to acknowledge her lineage.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2023

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