Sentence examples for two ancestors from inspiring English sources

"I had two ancestors in the Revolutionary War.

(The family's prominence stretched back farther still: two ancestors, Anson Greene Phelps and William E. Dodge, had founded the Phelps Dodge Corporation, a large mining concern, in 1834).

Since the scary holiday is a good excuse for television programmers to try to elicit fear, two ancestors of "Vampire Bats" are also being shown this week.

Like many Texans, Ms. Foote, 29, has one or two ancestors who outran the law, at least according to family lore.

Abruptly, soon after 11,000 years ago, they began to cultivate rye and chickpeas, then einkorn and emmer, two ancestors of wheat, and later barley.

We do not even know if both characters arose in one ancestor or in two ancestors.

However, the two ancestor ISTs Organic Chemical ∩ Hormone and Organic Chemical ∩ Immunologic Factor existed in the CSSN with extent sizes of 62 and 136, respectively.

Today there are an estimated 10 million ancestors of these early domestic cats in homes across Britain.

The two men are related through at least eight ancestors who lived in Massachusetts or England in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The footprints of five ancestors of humans who walked the Earth more than 3.6m years ago have been found preserved in volcanic ash that was dampened by ancient African rains.

But they might think twice about wandering down to the dusty, dark crypt, where six ancestors, including Julius Wilhelm Freiherr von Crailsheim, who was killed in an 18th-century hunting accident, are buried.