Sentence examples for both descended from inspiring English sources

The child's parents are both descended from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.

We're both descended from the man in the photograph, Alexander Wilson.

His parents were both descended from Caribbean islanders, which helps explain the saxophonist's penchant for calypso and West Indian rhythms.

Cognates are verbal cousins, like the Greek podos and the English foot, both descended from a common ancestor.

She is the earth mother to both of us, the prehistoric human from whom we both descended.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his socialist election rival Francois Hollande are "cousins" who are both descended from the same 17th century peasant, it has been claimed.

Maybe the whole conflict is family stuff, Jews and Arabs both descending from the patriarch Abraham and his ancestor Shem.

Little command of basic facts, excessive command of cable news tendencies — they both descend from the same problem, which is that … Trump watches too much cable news.

The trend behaviors among residuals, both descending and ascending trends, can cause faulty interpretations.

The stemma codicum of Mappæ (Fig. 1) is composed of two branches, both descending from the same lost manuscript.

This result suggests that the thalamic plasticity that is seen immediately after a peripheral deafferentation is dependent upon both descending corticofugal projections and ascending trigeminothalamic projections.