Sentence examples for date back generations from inspiring English sources
Unlike Eastover, which did not exist until the mid-1980's, the Lower Ninth is a community rich in history, home to families whose roots date back generations.
Docking and cropping date back generations to times when, for instance, people falsely believed that removing part of a dog's tail could prevent rabies.
Factionalism in the north goes beyond ethnicity, and within the Pashtun community itself various distinct tribes harbor feuds that match in animosity those with the Tajiks; additionally, within each tribe, conflicts among families can date back generations.
The stories that date back generations, centuries even.
The isolated towns of Virginia's Appalachian coal region are home to strong labor unions and Democratic political machines that date back generations.
[W]hat happens when you start losing your language and you start losing your culture and you don't have a sense of connections to ancestors and those memories that date back generations is you start feeling adrift.
Most of the killings occur in the Kurdish-populated south-east where females fall victim to customs dating back generations.
The conflict dates back generations, but tensions soared in 1995 and 1996, when the government reintroduced 66 gray wolves in Idaho and in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
One well-kept example, owned by Lee Krumenacker, 67, and her siblings, was bought by her great-grandfather and still has furniture dating back generations.
There is the model bust of the physicist Albert Michelson, handwritten ballots from elections dating back generations and old LPs celebrating the Great Americans.
