Examples of 'ancestry' in a sentence

Meaning of "ancestry"

The lineage or descent of a person, family, or group, usually traced through biological, cultural, or historical records
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  • Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
  • A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

How to use "ancestry" in a sentence

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The ashes of your ancestry will be mine.
Ancestry gods are often deified heroic persons.
You have magical ancestry but no power.
Human ancestry from a genetical point of view.
Until then matrilinear ancestry had been important.
His ancestry is not known for certain.
I love how invested you are in our ancestry.
I can trace my ancestry to the founding fathers.
Canst thou discover thine own ancestry.
It has a complex ancestry from cultivated orchids.
What we are asking about though is human ancestry.
A listing of his ancestry for five generations.
To kill the green is to kill our ancestry.
The correct ancestry for a puppet.
You should pay attention to your ancestry.

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His part of my ancestry has been farmers.
Romulanii and vulcanienii have a common ancestry.
The corresponding figure on ancestry was not collected.
They expected to find evidence of combined ancestry.
I am guessing your ancestry owes something to those regions.
With nobody sure of their precise ancestry.
The trades ancestry goes back to the apostles themselves.
Maybe less if all the ancestry holds up.
The further ancestry of the two brothers is uncertain.
Sharing cultural roots and ancestry in nature.
He has native ancestry through both his parents.
These examples reflect their shared ancestry.
The true heritage and ancestry of elected leaders.
Descendants of these settlers were often of mixed ancestry.
The secret ancestry of classic games.
This is a point mutation highly specific to balkan ancestry.
His parentage and ancestry are disputed.
A shared sense of common origins or ancestry.
Their exact ancestry has been disputed.
Born into slavery or servitude or slave or servant ancestry.
I felt my whole ancestry stretching back.
These are measurements we use to estimate ancestry.
The fossil record of human ancestry has a particular fascination.
I have spent my life trying to piece together my ancestry.
Their ancestry is also visible in the way they move.
We are the pedigree of the same ancestry and lineage.
Some of their ancestry went back to the original thirteen colonies.
First she turned to her ancestry.
His exact ancestry is unclear.
You have proven yourself worthy of our ancestry.
Modelling the recent common ancestry of all living humans.
That song encouraged me to investigate my ancestry.
Their ancestry goes back centuries.
They have a very ancient ancestry.
His ancestry can be traced at least four more generations.

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