Person from whom another person is descended.
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Examples for "ancestors "
Examples for "ancestors "
1 Ten thousand years ago, our ancestors made civilization possible by creating agriculture.
2 About two million years ago, our hominin ancestors began to change again.
3 While her ancestors were concerned with commerce, however, her business is e-commerce.
4 The sequence differences, however, indicate that they are derived from different ancestors .
5 Of course, Ramsey's ancestors had been outside, freezing in the slaves' quarters.
1 Clearly, the common genes suggest that the viruses share a common ancestor .
2 The island was also home to a dwarf elephant ancestor , for example.
3 However, in peach ancestor , these syntenic regions were quickly lost or deleted.
4 Finally forced to honor his ancestor two thousand years after the fact.
5 Yes, the portrait of my ancestor that I brought back from France.
1 But again the blood of his forebear was rousing strange tremblings within him.
2 Are you aware, sir, that these Crozers killed your forebear at the kirk-door?'
3 But he is not generally intrusive, content to render homage to his illustrious forebear .
4 Henry Moore shrewdly avoided all mention of his artistic forebear .
5 His grandson Jeremy Matthews spoke at the unveiling, paying tribute to his forebear 's bravery.
1 Their noble ancestresses of the Renaissance understood and did these things better-soHelen reflected.
2 She was human, after all, and had thousands of plebeian and primitive ancestors and ancestresses .
3 She was what her ancestresses had been for generations.
4 That poem was written by a very clever man who married one of my ancestresses .
5 Your ancestresses came from citadels and castles; no Schorlin ever yet brought his bride from a tradesman's house.
1 The new enthusiasts see West as the ancestress of strong modern women.
2 And then the stolidly common-sense Puritan ancestress in her made her laugh.
3 So Mrs. Clifford had an ancestress who was a Roumanian, had she?
4 Nella-Rose, now that her father considered, was dangerously like her picturesque ancestress !
5 And in Nan the soul of her French ancestress lived anew.
6 Her ancestress had been baptized by the subject of the story.
7 She was the ancestress to half the modern world's million-plus population.
8 From the maternal ancestress , the Demoiselles Blake inherited a certain amount of money.
9 Nor could be omitted from the purple record the later ancestress , Moya Doolen.
10 Still, there is something to be said in defence of that venerable ancestress .
11 Today no small host of Americans have for ancestress the daughter of Powhatan.
12 Ruth was the ancestress of our blessed Saviour, and of the Virgin Mary.
13 The former Archbishop of Cologne accepted Linz from my ancestress Matilda.
14 Did you get your greedy nature from some sable Dodonean ancestress ?
15 Came down to them, don't you know, from that Roumanian ancestress .
16 Nobody knew whence Bessie had stolen her good looks: probably some remote ancestress !
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