Sentence examples for direct heir from inspiring English sources
Marriage is considered to be a mainline back to this relationship, its direct heir.
Only Linehan identifies a direct heir to Seinfeld, in the sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Legend has it that Emperor Akihito, who reigns today, is Jinmu's 125th direct heir.
In their place sit biographies of Felipe and Letizia's daughters: Sofía, seven, and Leonor, who at eight years old is the youngest direct heir to a European throne.
In Mongol culture, legitimate leadership was supposed to be confined to the direct heir of Genghis Khan, and to pass only to the firstborn son of each generation.
And in essential ways he is direct heir to the 19th-century Hudson River School tradition, particularly the elegiac work of Thomas Cole.
The direct heirs of Chuck Berry and B. B.
Many of these old-timers had left no direct heirs.
They were the direct heirs of the classical tradition.
It is hard, today, to point to his direct heirs.
William II's death in 1189 without direct heirs found Tancred a serious contender for the throne.
