Sentence examples for were descended from inspiring English sources
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.
They raised many children, passing down to them the story that they were descended from Jefferson.
In the 20th century, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt were descended from Dutch nobility.
The Sassoons were descended from the great Jewish merchants of Baghdad.
"Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters'.
Both were descended from samurai, the traditional warrior class of feudal Japan.
On the other hand, some have suggested that the ichthyosaurs were descended from a distant relative of the turtles.
All men were men and brothers, because all were descended from Adam.
Ethiopians believe their rulers were descended from Menelik, child of the union between King Solomon and The Queen of Sheba.
According to the theory set forth in the treatise, nearly all pineys were descended from one man.
This was a shocking revelation from the scientist who had concluded that people were descended from apes.
All of the newcomers are Bhutanese of Nepalese origin who had migrated to Bhutan or were descended from immigrants.
