Sentence examples for is descended from inspiring English sources

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is descended

verb

To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward

The rain descended, and the floods came. Matthew vii. 25.

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Ames is descended from preachers.

The Guardian - Books

It's present population is descended from slaves imported from Africa.

The New Yorker

(He is descended from Bolívar's father's illegitimate son).

The New York Times

"The entire population is descended from a single female".

The New York Times - Science

He is descended from a family of Scottish gardeners.

The New Yorker

Mr Huckabee denies that man is descended from the apes.

The Economist

He is descended from Hungarian, not German, Jews.

The New York Times - Books

Mr. Feinstein's sleeker pop-jazz is descended from George Gershwin.

The New York Times

(His family is descended from 16th-century conquistadors).

The New York Times

Porfirio Gutiérrez is descended from a long line of weavers from Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca.

University of California, Berkeley

"Our Speaker is descended from Romanian Jews, the Lord Speaker's family hails from Portugal.

Independent

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