Sentence examples for Lineage from inspiring English sources

'lineage' is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to someone's ancestry or descent, or to talk about an area of knowledge, skills, or characteristics that is passed down from one generation to the next. For example: "My family's lineage can be traced back for thousands of years."

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Lineage

noun

Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

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They don't want to be firebrands; their music is what Holman calls "social documentation" in the lineage of the Streets, rather than Rage Against The Machine.

Salman stands to be succeeded in turn by Prince Muqrin, 69, the deputy crown prince, an RAF-trained fighter pilot and former intelligence chief whose prospects are often questioned because he was born to a Yemeni rather than a Saudi mother of "approved" tribal lineage.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given its lineage, OS was organised along strong principles of leaderlessness, horizontality and consensus.

Hume and Mallon can trace their political lineage back to the founding father of peaceful constitutional nationalism, Daniel O'Connell, and on through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to Charles Stewart Parnell to John Redmond.

The long Hollywood lineage of films about the FBI bringing rich, unreachable men to justice has lent a distinct movie-like quality to the crumbling of Sepp Blatter and Fifa, from the dawn arrests of accused high-ups at their five-star Zurich hotel, through the criminal confessions of Chuck Blazer, to the still pinch-yourself moment the president announced his fall.

He also shares a cultural lineage with the sounds of South African musicians he grew up listening to.

It does not help that Khan is an Indian Muslim of Pashtun lineage.

The chromosome-happy frog is a member of an ancient lineage of amphibians known as pipids, which are only represented today by about 30 species that lack tongues and stick solely to water.

Problem: Small-scale dairy farmers often living in remote areas don't have access to valuable information about latest prices of milk or cattle, and they may not keep accurate records of important details such as their cows' gestation periods or their livestock's lineage – often resulting in inbreeding and disease.

If you trace the lineage of big American sitcoms all the way back to Cheers, each of them at least had something going for it.

Spoek shares what he calls a cultural lineage with this movement.

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