Sentence examples for the descendant from inspiring English sources

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the descendant

noun

One who is the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.

  • The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.

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Everyone here is the descendant of pioneers.

He was not the descendant of American slaves.

The ancestor had briefly taken possession of the descendant.

Roskomos is the descendant of the Soviet Union's space program.

In "Picasso et les Maîtres", the descendant meets its original.

"As the descendant of four grandparents who are Holocaust survivors," he says.

Modern Estonian is the descendant of one or possibly two of the original Baltic-Finnic dialects.

'Thrives on Stimuli' Gee grew up in Vernal, Utah, the descendant of Mormon pioneers.

He became an African-American man, but he was not the descendant of slaves.

I do not see myself as the descendant of "victims", as your article termed them.

Maars is the descendant of an earlier experimental system built by QinetiQ.

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