Sentence examples for distant ancestor from inspiring English sources

As did a distant ancestor of David Cameron.

THEN Miller Lane East is named for a distant ancestor.

He pictures a distant ancestor, clothed in skins, huddled by a tiny fire.

And Java Man would be a distant ancestor of modern Australian aboriginal populations.

Moreover, we know from cut marks on old bones that our distant ancestor Homo habilis ate meat.

Jeffrey Eugenides dares to base the plot on genetic theory, so if Homer is a distant ancestor, Darwin is another.

Words change their meanings, and so you cannot dignify the cynicism of now by associating it with its distant ancestor.

In this, Darcy is aided by simpering secretary Celia, and betrayed by a distant ancestor of Miss Moneypenny.

(Tunder started an Abendmusik series of free concerts in Lübeck, Germany, a distant ancestor of the 4x4 festival).

The extensive research and dramatic pacing of Kurtzman's fiction make it the distant ancestor of Joe Sacco's comics reportage.

It would have been made by a distant ancestor of Neanderthals, and as far as Britain was concerned, was as old as early humans got.