Sentence examples for of uncertain parentage from inspiring English sources

He is a Jötun (an Elemental; a shape-shifter) of uncertain parentage.

Well, one was: Zoey, 8, a black-and-white dog of uncertain parentage who is currently collapsed at a reporter's feet, worn out from four weeks of research.

Oh! and obviously there is a baby of uncertain parentage passed around to whoever is suffering most at any moment -- for all the emotions it can stir in viewers.

But judging from the preview on Wednesday, Mr. Mullins gets fine work out of his cast, especially Ian Kahn, who lights up the stage as Philip Faulconbridge, a man of uncertain parentage who becomes John's right hand.

Then it cuts to cartoonish scenes depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a child of uncertain parentage, a buffoon, a womanizer, a homosexual, a child molester and a greedy, bloodthirsty thug.

One member of the love triangle, a Finn — touchingly described as "not beautiful in the strict sense, but nonetheless the most beautiful" — has arrived with a child of uncertain parentage.

The students reliably identify the three major environmental contexts for the evolution of infanticide (lack of resources, offspring quality, uncertain parentage), thereby providing an impressive demonstration of the power of evolutionary theory to make predictions about the traits of organisms not just for infanticide but for innumerable traits in all species (see Wilson 2007, ch. 3).

Her childhood rejection by both black and white society because of her mixed and uncertain parentage might have left her with a profound sense of having to go it alone.

We read about wealth and what it is to be on the outside of it via the pairing of the narrator, whose parents are academic expatriate Pakistanis, and Zafar, whose uncertain parentage is linked inextricably to the violence that gave birth to his nation state, Bangladesh.

There are things you really ought to know about Baron Alexander von Reisden -- disturbing things about this Austrian scientist's uncertain parentage and violent heritage -- before plunging into the dense narrative thickets of A CITIZEN OF THE COUNTRY (Ballantine, $24.95).

Do you want a pedigreed purebred cat or a mixed breed cat with uncertain parentage?