Sentence examples for ancestry lies from inspiring English sources

If your ancestry lies outside the UK, don't neglect a possible link to a European sovereign.

I cannot point to a map and say, "That is the country I came from"; our ancestry lies in the cotton fields of Mississippi and in the swamps of southern Florida.

But like so much of New York's history, the hot dog's ancestry lies elsewhere.

The work's ancestry obviously lies in Guernica, made seven years before.

All these vectors (referred to as ancestry proportions) lie within a tetrahedron in 3D space.

The now established record of all of the "pro-arthropods" and even true crustaceans in the earliest Palaeozoic implies, in our view, that the ancestry of Arthropoda lies even further back well in the Pre-Cambrian.

Critics of the ads, including some Democrats, say they have injected race and ethnicity into the campaign, that the ads imply that Mr. Labrador's Hispanic ancestry means his sympathies lie with illegal Hispanic immigrants.

I think that probably lies with my ancestry.

Though Dolezal started out with an admiration of African American culture, she allows herself to move dangerously over into fetishism and donning blackface every time she lies about her ancestry or incorrectly checks the African American box on a job form.

However, paleontological studies suggest that the ultimate ancestry of these extinct taxa lies in Eurasia [ 92, 93].

"I care more for Lincoln's great toe than for the whole body of the perfect George Washington, of spotless ancestry, who 'never told a lie' and never did anything else interesting".