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How to use pedigree in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Pedigree means a chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding. Example: “This connection between sexual and spiritual impurity had an immense pedigree.”

Examples of pedigree by meaning

nounThe history or provenance of an idea, custom etc.

  • This connection between sexual and spiritual impurity had an immense pedigree.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 33

More sentences with pedigree

  • Narita leans into his Ivy League pedigree as he fosters a nerdy shock jock impression.2023 February 12, Motoko Rich, Hikari Hida, “A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean?”, in The…. From the entry shock jock
  • Cruz has been able to use his pseudo-intellectualism and his Ivy League pedigree as a cudgel.2021 January 11, Mimi Swartz, “Never Forget What Ted Cruz Did”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2021. From the entry cudgel
  • Both were mythomanes, inventing and exaggerating to embellish their own careers and pedigrees.2019, Louis Theroux, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television, London: Macmillan, page 384. From the entry mythomane
  • Collectively the P'u-t'ien elite claimed the most ancient pedigree among the Min-nan elite.2004, Thomas H. C. Lee, editor, The New and the Multiple: Sung Senses of the Past, Chinese University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 248. From the entry Fu-chou
  • All the ancestrals with unknown origin or pedigree were included within this group.1993, Jorge Enrique Autrique, Molecular Markers Applied to Wheat Improvement, page 33. From the entry ancestral
  • His sections in the book include Types of Genealogical Projects (pedigrees, lineages, descendancies, relationships).1989, Ontario Genealogical Society, Families, Volumes 28-29. From the entry descendancy
  • Some of the other charms employed by the wise men had a more tangled pedigree.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 174. From the entry wise man
  • Because democracy is not an upstart which is backed by no good pedigree and tradition.1960, Calcutta Review. From the entry taleful
  • The siriometer dates its pedigree from the founder of stellar astronomy, William Herschel.1925, The Observatory, volume 48, page 143. From the entry siriometer
  • Not a bad pedigree of creative and inspirational birthday buddies.2011, Sandra Harnisch-Lacey, Steve Stickley, People Like Us: Life with Rob Lacey, Author of The Word on the Street, Grand Rapids…. From the entry birthday buddy
  • Coplans, one assumes, insinuates the pedigree of Ms.2009 July 25, Roberta Smith, “Art or Ad or What? It Caused a Lot of Fuss”, in New York Times. From the entry uncaptioned
  • These aspirants are Jay Gatsbys in training, who regard an elite pedigree as their ticket to the new aristocracy.2009, David L. Kirp, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education, Harvard University Press, page 12. From the entry Jay Gatsby
  • Yet despite that pedigree, he describes himself as "essentially a Portillista" – liberal on social affairs, centre-right on economics.2001 October 3, Matthew Tempest, “New Labour's power-dressed future”, in The Guardian. From the entry Portillista
  • This system has the purest Spanish pedigree and virtually no history at all before the period of the Counter Reformation.1981, H. W. Sullivan, Tirso de Molina and the Drama of the Counter Reformation, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry Counter Reformation
  • Carrados's most substantial rug and went to sleep, to dream of a wayside cycle shop and tea-rooms where he could devote himself to pedigree Wyandottes.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry wyandotte
  • Wife, despite her august educational pedigree, stays at home to raise the kids, relinquishing career and otherwise idling in the make-work realm of school boards and volunteering.2026 January 11, Alex Kuczynski, “Her Life Was an Old-Money Dream. It Collapsed in a Moment.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry august
  • Despite Killer Instinct’s pedigree as an excellent game, there’s no doubt that its superb rollback netcode has played a huge part in the sustained growth of its community.2019 October 18, Ricky Pusch, “Explaining how fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode”, in Ars Technica, archived from the…. From the entry rollback netcode
  • Perhaps because aca-fen often teach in fields based on the interrogation of media cultures, their status as fans has not, moreover, led to their pedigree as academics being questioned.2013, Mark Duffett, Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 268. From the entry aca-fan
  • As with most guys of his privileged station and prep school pedigree, Dude was put together well–blandsome—which is all he needs to get laid on a regular basis.2008, Megan McCafferty, Fourth Comings. From the entry blandsome
  • Euarchos of Katane has no patronymic or pedigree, nor, though oecist of a secondary colony, is he associated with an oecist from the original metropolis, Chalkis.1970, Molly Miller, The Sicilian Colony Dates, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry oecist
  • Irene Dunne . . . falls in love with John Boles, a pedigreed young banker, who by a series of misunderstandings, makes her his mistress instead of his wife.1932 August 8, “Cinema: The New Pictures”, in Time. From the entry kept woman

Meaning of pedigree

  1. noun A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.
  2. noun A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage.
  3. noun Good breeding or ancestry.

Full definition of pedigree

Questions about pedigree in a sentence

How do you use pedigree in a sentence?
Pedigree is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “This connection between sexual and spiritual impurity had an immense pedigree.”
What is a short sentence with pedigree?
“Coplans, one assumes, insinuates the pedigree of Ms.”
What does pedigree mean?
Pedigree means a chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pedigree (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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