Sentence examples for a heir from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a heir" is not correct in written English; it should be "an heir." You can use "an heir" when referring to someone who is legally entitled to inherit property or a title.

Example: "As the only child, she was named as the heir to her father's estate."
Alternatives: "an inheritor" or "a successor."

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Arsenal is now owned by a heir to the Walmart fortune and an Uzbek oligarch.

Podemos, a heir of the social protests that swept Spain from May 2011, was founded by a group of university professors, with origins on the far left.

In a court of preening noblemen presided over by a sobbing king who cannot sire a heir, Cromwell is admired by us and hated by everyone else because, as he puts it, "I was always first up in the morning.

However, his advisors, "grieving that the kingdom was in a sorry state and the King without a heir", persuaded him to marry.

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Her father was an archaeologist and adventurer, an heir to a Lyon silk-manufacturing fortune.

(Orr-Ewing is himself an heir to a baronetcy).

He was Hollywood handsome and an heir to a family fortune.

In 1939, Pauline Friedman left college to marry Morton Phillips, an heir to a liquor fortune.

Among those businessmen was Mr. bin Laden, an heir to a Saudi construction fortune.

Shawn Donnelley, an heir to a wealthy printing family, has spent nearly $2 million of her own money.

Katherine of Aragon, the queen who can't produce an heir, wears a nun's habit.

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