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• He considered himself to be a Yugoslav first and foremost, regardless of his Croat and Serb ancestry.From the entry Yugoslav
• In the 16th century, a "creole" was a person of European ancestry born in the New World.From the entry New World
• She wore a shamrock in honor of her Irish ancestry.From the entry shamrock
• Angela Davis, longtime revolutionary and former member of the Communist Party, was stunned to learn that she, of all people, could trace her ancestry back to the boat.From the entry the boat
• A faction recalled Duke mentioning Bajan ancestry at some point, which lent credence to the tale.2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, pages 241–242. From the entry bajan
• If I identified with my wadjela ancestry at the expense of my Aboriginality, the colonisers win.2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in…. From the entry coloniser
• In the body and the shoulders, the Grooters clearly showed the old English carrier ancestry.2013, Carl Naether, The Book Of The Racing Pigeon, →ISBN. From the entry old English Carrier
• However, phylogenetic trees describe the relatedness between living organisms (and their classification) rather than ancestry.2011, Jacques Pepin, “The Source”, in The Origins of AIDS, 1st edition, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry phylogenetic tree
• The late James Smith of Campbell River, who claimed Komenox ancestry, recounted one of their important legends.2008, Jeanette Taylor, Tidal passages : a history of the Discovery Islands, Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, →ISBN, page 240. From the entry Komenox
• Ancestry, he thought gloatingly - but instinctively he kept this knowledge jealously.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry gloatingly
• Many of the housemates had Jewish ancestry, but in lieu of Shabbos prayers they had invented their own secular rituals.2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 51. From the entry shabbos
• I, an abuela-aged woman of Northern European ancestry, have lived within 50 miles of the Mexican border most of my life.2022 February 17, Diane Scholfield, “Letters to the Editor: Is ‘gringo’ offensive? That’s up to the person being called one”, in Los…. From the entry abuela
• Family ancestry and genealogy are definitely their jam.2019 March 5, Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, Harlequin…. From the entry necrogamy
• Their evidence suggests that fur and whiskers appeared early on in the ancestry of mammals, in the earliest probainognathians.2016 September 7, Elsa Panciroli, “Did milk and fur evolve before the earliest mammals?”, in The Guardian. From the entry probainognathian
• Earth tones in primitive, rough, natural forms, such as rocks, fossils, nuts, and shells, suggest our tribal ancestry.2012, Margie Deeb, The Beader's Guide to Color, page 32. From the entry earth tone
• This is treated as defining the opisthokont ancestry.2006, Laura Katz Olson, Debashish Bhattacharya, Genomics and Evolution of Microbial Eukaryotes, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 13…. From the entry opisthokont
• This ancestry Jane took great pride in.2005, Minda Webber, The Reluctant Miss Van Helsing, →ISBN. From the entry werelioness
• I am American of Irish ancestry hence not a Semite.2000 January 27, vonquark, “The Historical Errrors of the Racists!”, in alt.discrimination (Usenet), retrieved 15 Feb 2022. From the entry Nordicentric
• He's one of the boys, with Teutonic ancestry.1990, Jonathan Kellerman, Time Bomb, page 163. From the entry Gregory
• The morphology of stamens and carpels of the crucifer flower as well as their anatomy bears testimony to a papaverous ancestry.1988, Subhash C. Datta, Systematic Botany, New Age International, →ISBN, page 259. From the entry papaverous
• Leading patrician and plebeian families came to be informally called nobiles (‘notables’), or collectively the nobilitas, their ancestry adorned by consuls, dictators and triumphators.2019, Dexter Hoyos, “Rome Before Empire: Hegemony Over Italy”, in Rome Victorious: The Irresistible Rise of the Roman Empire, London; New…. From the entry triumphator
• The Turkmen were the mainstay of the Saljuq army but they were supplemented by Turkish slave soldiers and mercenaries, often of Kurdish ancestry.2018, The Wiley Blackwell History of Islam. From the entry Saljuq
• Since most tribal Heathens believe folks must be adopted into the tribe, ancestry is not as much of an issue as it is with folkism.2016, Kathryn Rountree, Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Modern Paganism, page 54. From the entry folkism
• In contrast, American Indians have generally been identified by hyperdescent, a principle that stipulates some minimum amount of ancestry as a necessary condition for qualification.2002, Joel Perlmann, The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals. From the entry hyperdescent
• The current books have a long ancestry, and every innovation carries in its train a posse of suspicious and, one feels, unpersuadable observers.1972, Mortimer J. Adler with Charles Van Doren, chapter 3, in How to Read a Book, Touchstone September 2014 edition, New York, NY: Simon &…. From the entry posse
• A special discriminatory formula is now applied to the immigration of persons who are attributable by their ancestry to an area called the Asia-Pacific triangle.1964, John F. Kennedy, “Where We Stand”, in A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 81. From the entry Asia-Pacific
• True to his Scots ancestry, Mr.1947 October 25, “Nicknamed ‘Marrow Jack’”, in The Mail, volume 36, number 1,848, Adelaide, S.A.: News Limited, →OCLC, page 1, columns 3–4. From the entry aldermanic
• Chang Loi’s ancestry with choice bits of elephant-folk epithetry so tangful they made even Barnsdale’s accustomed ears to pringle with their novelty and warmth.1919 August, George Gilbert, “The Mottled Slayer”, in Sunset, the Pacific Monthly, volume 43, number 2, →OCLC, page 20. From the entry epithetry
• Meiklejohn believes the authors could use other methodologies like the FORensic Capture Enrichment panel, designed to isolate human DNA for identifying extended kinship, ancestry and phenotype analysis.2026 January 16, Ashley Strickland, “Genetic clues may be hiding in Leonardo da Vinci’s artwork”, in CNN, archived from the original on 06…. From the entry phenotype
• Like the deathless vampire who must repeat its stalk-and-kill cycle in order to satisfy a recurring blood hunger, the earliest film horrors cannibalized its literary ancestry again and again.2005, Tony Magistrale, Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film. From the entry deathless
• It is surely no coincidence that the two African and the three Eurasian tribes that seem to have antidorcine ancestry are predominantly grazers, particularly in the larger size ranges.1988 December 29, Jonathan Kingdon, East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa, Volume 3, Part C: Bovids, University of Chicago…. From the entry antidorcine
• The single ancestry women have a 9 to 5 ratio of marrying in to marrying out; those of a mixed ancestry have a 5 to 8 ratio.1976, Helena Znaniecka Lopata, Mary Patrice Erdmans, Polish Americans, →ISBN, pages 153–154. From the entry marry in
• In his classification of prototherian mammals Hopson (31) queried the allocation of Haramiyidae to the Multituberculata and suggested that multituberculates were derived from a morganucodontid ancestry.1970, William A. Clemens, “Mesozoic Mammalian Evolution”, in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, volume 1, page 363. From the entry prototherian
• Any wretch who claimed ancestry among the people of the moon in those days, would have been convicted of witchcraft and burned at the stake without mercy."1933 February, Julian Kendig, Jr., “The Eternal Mask”, in Amazing Stories, volume 7, number 11, page 1036, column 2. From the entry Lunite
• Although cultural Marxists have tried to extirpate it from Western man's memory, there remains the ancient, conservative notion of a nation, one rooted in ancestry, kith and kin, and genophilia.2007 September 11, MFOgilvie, “Genocide Against Westerners”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet). From the entry genophilia

Meaning of ancestry

1. noun The state of being ancestors.
2. noun Birth to a noble or high-ranking family, or to someone of honorable descent.
3. noun A series of ancestors; the people from whom one is descended.

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Questions about ancestry in a sentence

How do you use ancestry in a sentence?

Ancestry is used as a noun. For example: “I can trace my ancestry back to the 18th century.”

What is a short sentence with ancestry?

“True to his Scots ancestry, Mr.”

What does ancestry mean?

Ancestry means the state of being ancestors.