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
• My mother never let my sister live down her grade school class heritage project, where she was assigned to bring in food that represents a country in her lineage.
  — Kristina Behr, Parents, 11 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024