Sentence examples for were ancestor from inspiring English sources

Many local families who were ancestor worshipers would not allow their children to attend.

Out of these 1967 gene phenotype relationships, 47 were covered by the taxonomy of the ontology, i.e. the predicted phenotypes were ancestor concepts of annotations already used for one particular gene.

Not that these particular dinosaurs were ancestors of birds.

Presumably, they were ancestors of the previous owner.

"There were … sacred … rocks — I dunno, they were ancestors, who knows — they were sacred," said Lawrence.

The finding bolsters the hypothesis that some dinosaurs were ancestors of today's birds.

The Ancestral Pueblo people, formerly known as Anasazi, were ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians.

There were ancestors of horses about 12,000 years [ago], but they all went extinct.

"He felt the way Long Island history had been studied before was ancestor worship," Ms. Ewen said.

The third case is ancestor worship.

If the Golem is Yod's ancestor, then the Golem story is ancestor to Piercy's novel.