How to Use descendant in a Sentence

descendant

1 of 2 adjective
Definition of descendantnext
Synonyms for descendantnext
  • The school hopes to draw in the descendant community in several ways.
    — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 31 July 2019
  • The pledge falls short of the $1 billion that descendant leaders had called on the Jesuits to raise.
    — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The group was made up of friends of Ariana Rockefeller, the descendant grand-niece of the property's founder.
    — Avril Graham, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 May 2017
  • An in-law or stepchild is considered neither kindred nor descendant and will not inherit.
    — Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2020
  • Student and community activists were at the center of calls to return the remains to descendant communities.
    — Jacquelyne Germain, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The three ancestry options are hexbloods descendant from hags, dhampirs who have vampire blood and reborn who died and somehow returned.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • The daughter of a free jazz saxophone player and a booking agent for afro-descendant music acts, Murray grew up in the music industry.
    — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Reaching for disco—and its descendant rave-inspiring subgenres—may appear to be a safe bet for a sonic reset.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Other plantations have started programs that seek to give back to their descendant communities.
    — Washington Post, 7 June 2021
  • Unlike her forebear and descendant, Carmela was never written as a stock character.
    — Hazlitt, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Today, local representatives from descendant communities visit the site twice a year and help guide the research.
    — Jon Hurdle, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2017
  • The two descendant groups have filed lawsuits over the Alamo project, seeking to be included in decisions on the treatment and disposition of uncovered remains.
    — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 17 June 2020
  • In wrestling with the economic legacy of slavery, one scene shows a descendant reading Lewis' words while sitting in an antebellum mansion.
    — Kim Chandler, ajc, 21 Oct. 2022
  • What starts off as trash can become priceless artifacts, and the more that’s left to be buried and preserved for decades or centuries or millennia, the more descendant generations can learn about the ones that came before.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 Aug. 2019
  • From Afro-descendant spiritualities to the revolution of the practice of resistance and love.
    — Vogue, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Most of Colombia’s Afro-descendant peoples hail from the torrid zones along the Pacific and Caribbean coasts.
    — Patrick J. McDonnellforeign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Seven decades later, that letter has been returned to a family descendant after resurfacing at a flea market in New York.
    — Sara Smart, CNN, 27 Jan. 2022
  • All of them are Catholic, too, while the broader descendant community has more religious diversity.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 3 June 2021
  • Our organization’s aim is not only to tell the full histories of sites but to foster the engagement of descendant communities and others in demanding a reckoning.
    — The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The discovery in 2019 of the sunken remains of the ship also brings to the surface many questions among the local descendant community.
    — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Another two represent the National Trust and have supported the efforts to include the descendant community.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 16 May 2022
  • Race was invented by European colonists to provide an excuse for the systematic oppression of African-descendant people.
    — Kelley Fanto Deetz, The Conversation, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Though this year's homecoming won't be the same as a physical gathering, descendant Bryan Glover believes the pandemic has opened up their history to those outside the family.
    — Tiana Woodard, The Indianapolis Star, 2 July 2020
  • And in a museum context like that, non-Indigenous scientists didn’t necessarily have to go to a descendant community and ask for permission to do their research.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Hupa Tribe descendant and native plant educator Kat High.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
  • In some of his papers, Linde represents his eternal chaotic inflation model as a thick hedge of branching bulbs, each bulb a separate universe, connected to ancestor bulbs and descendant bulbs by thin tubes.
    — Alan Lightman, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Members of the church's descendant community eventually hope to submit their DNA to assess biological kinship to those buried at the church.
    — Jacquelyne Germain, CNN, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Through grant funding, the community will create a restoration and maintenance plan, address issues surrounding descendant access, and initiate a research project to document the cemetery.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 20 July 2022
  • For them, the new study underscores the need for collaboration between scientists and descendant communities in future conservation efforts.
    — Scott Hershberger, Scientific American, 13 July 2020
  • The measure would provide federal recognition for these locations and help collect information on them, which would be useful for descendant communities and developers alike.
    — Popular Science, 17 Nov. 2020
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descendant

2 of 2 noun
  • Recent evidence supports the theory that birds are the modern descendants of dinosaurs.
  • One of the famous inventor's descendants is also an inventor.
  • Many people in this area are descendants of German immigrants.
  • The Italian language is one of Latin's descendants.
  • The man was a descendant of the Foster family, for which the farm is named.
    — Steve Smith, Hartford Courant, 5 May 2022
  • The lawsuits gave those descendants the choice to either sell their stake in the land or bid for it at auction.
    — Guthrie Scrimgeour, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
  • This is the descendant of the language of Beowulf for crying out loud!
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2012
  • The suit was filed by the descendant of a family that deeded the land the monument sits on.
    — NBC News, 13 June 2020
  • Their origins and politics vary, and some are the descendants of refugees.
    — Daniel Beekman, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2017
  • Her house is still intact, and its tour guide is a direct descendant of hers.
    — Adam Gopnik, Town & Country, 20 May 2019
  • And then there were those ancestors who lost all their living descendants to the wave.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Many of the famed Hemingway cats have six toes and are descendants of a cat once owned by the author.
    — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Have any of Winston Churchill’s descendants seen the film?
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Direct payments are only one method the state could use to support the descendants of slaves.
    — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • Some of the descendants still list an area residence on the petition.
    — Erin Hegarty, Naperville Sun, 16 May 2017
  • So will Lord Balfour, a descendant of the man who lent his name to the letter.
    — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Each of Herman’s descendants get a unique name and number.
    — Alex Kingsbury, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • So many of us in this country are descendants of immigrants.
    — Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, Marie Claire, 25 June 2018
  • Moab is a descendant of Lot, the nephew of our father Abraham.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2022
  • The burros are descendants of animals used by miners and abandoned when the ore played out.
    — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Just what do these men have to do with the allegations leveled against their descendant?
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Gray was able to find descendants of the victims, but memories of stories proved hazy.
    — William Thornton, AL.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Catalano hopes that someday someone will try to find the boy’s descendants, and that her research might help with the hunt.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2020
  • And a descendant of its founder would forever hold a seat on its governing board.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2021
  • There are still descendants of the families that live here who were the original settlers.
    — Nancy Stearns Theiss, The Courier-Journal, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Now, the families who lived on the land and their descendants are moving forward in their quest for racial justice.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Niza and Brilka are descendants of what once seemed set to be a dynasty of chocolatiers.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • And Quindaro thrived for decades as a home for hundreds of former slaves and their descendants.
    — The Kansas City Star Editorial Board, kansascity, 15 June 2018
  • Some of these places had all their community wiped out; there are no descendants.
    — Howard Blas, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 June 2018
  • The remarks come as a new descendant of the omicron variant, known as BA.
    — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022

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