How to use inheritance in a sentence

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• My vast fortune was a result of inheritance and stock market nous.From the entry fortune
• Once he is married, he will be able to claim the inheritance.From the entry once
• The prodigal son spent his share of his inheritance until he was destitute.From the entry prodigal
• You can only access the inheritance money when you reach the age of 25.From the entry reach
• You can say goodbye to your inheritance if you annoy your parents too much!From the entry say goodbye
• The provisory clause effectively excluded his otherwise logical heirs from his main inheritance.From the entry provisory
• His finances were in ruins after spending all his inheritance on cars and drugs.From the entry in ruins
• I forfeited my inheritance and married outside my parents' faith.From the entry marry
• The young man wantoned away his inheritance.From the entry wanton
• He used his inheritance to fund his gambling addiction.From the entry fund
• He blew off his inheritance on partying.From the entry blow off
• His inheritance catapulted him into a life of ease.From the entry ease
• They studied Mendelian inheritance in a fruit fly model.From the entry model
• Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.From the entry unborn
• He was expecting a large inheritance from a well-off aunt.From the entry well-off
• I can't justify spending that much money on a meal, but YWMV since your recent inheritance has replenished your checking account.From the entry YWMV
• The investors husbanded up my inheritance into a small fortune.From the entry husband up
• The team also found that the traits followed prionlike inheritance patterns.2016 March 10, Rosanne Spector, “Prions can pass on beneficial traits, study finds”, in Stanford Medicine. From the entry prionlike
• So he gets a little murdery to speed up the inheritance process.2013, Michelle Witte, Faker's Guide to the Classics: Everything You Need to Know About the Books You Should Have Read (But Didn't), Lyons…. From the entry murdery
• I'm your typical trustafarian, I'm afraid: spoilt little rich kid living the dream off his inheritance.2012, Hannah Richell, The Secrets of the Tides, →ISBN, page 425. From the entry trustafarian
• The runtime binder considers inheritance and name hiding, and does overload resolution.2004, Paul Vick, The Visual Basic .NET Programming Language, page 389. From the entry binder
• The Ewes are a patrilineal people, with inheritance passing from father to son.2002, James Minahan, “Ewes”, in Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: Ethnic and National Groups Around the World, volumes II (D–K)…. From the entry ewe
• The construct of inheritance–although wildly popular in most object-oriented shops—may sometimes introduce raging connascence.2000, Meilir Page-Jones, Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design in UML, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 225. From the entry connascence
• Lakes of morphoclimatic inheritance (Chapter IV) often are of medium size and some thousands of years old.2000, Laurent Touchart, Les lacs : origine et morphologie, →ISBN, page 8. From the entry morphoclimatic
• Those who manage it can uncheat you and give you your inheritance.1992, Barbara Probst Solomon, Smart Hearts in the City, page 330. From the entry uncheat
• Cytoplasmic inheritance or dauermodification are considered the most likely explanations for this difference in photoperiod reaction.1979 April 12, J. C. Sanford, R. E. Hanneman, “Reciprocal differences in the photoperiod reaction of hybrid populations in Solanum…. From the entry dauermodification
• Inheritance in the males is purely matriclinous as would be expected if they arise in unfertilized eggs.1933, Francis Albert Eley Crew, Sex determination, page 76. From the entry matriclinous
• When it works well, Mank feels like the inheritance and renovation of a range of craft competencies and attentions.2021 May 9, J. D. Connor, “Put Some 'Mank' on It”, in Los Angeles Review of Books. From the entry Glup Shitto
• Primogeniture acting as a law of inheritance in the case of intestacy applied in fact to all real property, however humble.2011, Zouheir Jamoussi, Primogeniture and Entail in England: A Survey of Their History and Representation in Literature, page 10. From the entry primogeniture
• Akram is a working alim, lecturing in mosques and universities and dispensing fatwas on issues like inheritance and divorce.2007 February 25, Carla Power, “A Secret History”, in New York Times. From the entry alim
• Your inheritance amounts to maybe three hundred thousand dollars."2003, Sandra Benítez, Night of the Radishes, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 223. From the entry apple
• Mendelians offered rules and patterns for inheritance.2000 August 27, Joe Cain, “The Prince of Peas”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry mendelian
• The rudiments of particulate inheritance were dimly understood already by the breeders of cattle and apples, but nobody was being systematic.1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 41. From the entry particulate
• Insight into the fundamental mechanisms underlying the inheritance of biological diversity is a prerequisite for a fuller understanding of life itself.1984, Andre Hurst, Anwar Nasim, Repairable Lessons in Microorganisms, Academic Press, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 41. From the entry hyperproficient
• Theirs is an everlasting terrestrial inheritance because they rejected the truth when it was offered to them in mortality.1977 August, Bruce R. McConkie, “A New Commandment: Save Thyself and Thy Kindred!”, in Tambuli, page 5. From the entry terrestrial
• The apparent dominant inheritance pattern (pseudodominant) was the result of the unusual coincidence of both mother and daughter being compound heterozygotes for senataxin mutations.2015 April 30, Laurence Newrick, Malcolm Taylor, Marios Hadjivassiliou, “Pseudodominant AOA2”, in Cerebellum & Ataxias, volume 2, →DOI. From the entry senataxin
• The Web is also big business; who needs a real job when you can just send Grandma a screamer and—POOF!—there's your inheritance.2008, Nadia Giosia, Bitchin' Kitchen Cookbook. From the entry screamer
• Nevertheless Adrian declares his inheritance and linkages with the Molesworthian world not only in his name, but also by his introduction to the reader.1996, George E. C. Paton, The Social Faces of Humour: Practices and Issues, page 93. From the entry Molesworthian
• If what has taken form acknowledges no continuity, no inheritance, no necessity, then what has taken form, again in the extremest meaning, is a beginning.1979, Mario J. Rizzo, Time, Uncertainty, and Disequilibrium. From the entry uncause

Meaning of inheritance

1. noun The passing of title to an estate upon death.
2. noun That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament, such as the part of an estate (i.e., a portion).
3. noun The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited.

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Questions about inheritance in a sentence

How do you use inheritance in a sentence?

Inheritance is used as a noun. For example: “The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.”

What is a short sentence with inheritance?

“He blew off his inheritance on partying.”

What does inheritance mean?

Inheritance means the passing of title to an estate upon death.