Examples of family tree in a Sentence
A framed family tree hung on the wall.
his family tree includes writers, musical composers, and other notables in the arts
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The two species straddle a period of climate upheaval during the Early to Late Pliocene, in what is now Europe, where this part of the bear family tree was developing at the time.
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New Atlas, 2 Dec. 2025
That led to a relative of DeAngelo, and investigators began building a family tree from that individual looking for anyone who might have lived in the same area of the attacks.
—Sam Stanton, Sacbee.com, 18 Nov. 2025
Afterwards, a team of volunteer investigative genetic genealogists with the DNA Doe Project began to assemble a family tree based on the information.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
But Tanzanian tree toads face more pressing concerns than which goes where in the Nectophrynoides family tree.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025
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New Atlas, 2 Dec. 2025
That led to a relative of DeAngelo, and investigators began building a family tree from that individual looking for anyone who might have lived in the same area of the attacks.
—Sam Stanton, Sacbee.com, 18 Nov. 2025
Afterwards, a team of volunteer investigative genetic genealogists with the DNA Doe Project began to assemble a family tree based on the information.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
But Tanzanian tree toads face more pressing concerns than which goes where in the Nectophrynoides family tree.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for family tree
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“Family tree.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/family%20tree. Accessed 6 Dec. 2025.
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