How to Use inheritance in a Sentence

inheritance

noun

• The buildings are part of the city's architectural inheritance.
• She began her own business with the inheritance she got from her grandfather.
• He left sizable inheritances to his children.
• In the end, that may be the truest inheritance of all.
  — Stacey Lee, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026
• This race is no longer about inheritance.
  — Matt Klink, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2026
• The last of her line of inheritance had been spent long before she was born.
  — Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
• Viserys did have that in a very big way, with his inheritance robbed from him.
  — Derek Lawrence, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2026
• He was orphaned as a child and is said to have used his inheritance to help the poor and sick.
  — Ashley Novak, CNN, 6 Dec. 2020
• This, to me, is the new frontier of inheritance.
  — Sergey Stopnevich, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• Any one of those factors can have a huge impact on your inheritance.
  — Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2021
• Liam Payne left his kin with a big inheritance before his death.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 21 Oct. 2024
• An inheritance can be loving and brilliant and still be wrong in places.
  — Joyce Kamanitz, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2026
• Some inheritances arrive as checks in the mail.
  — Monish Verma, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• This spouse wants to keep an inheritance secret from the other spouse.
  — Liz Weston, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2023
• Bill had to share the inheritance with his estranged nieces and nephews.
  — Christine Fletcher, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• Grief was only part of the inheritance.
  — Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
• And not very pleased to be reminded that the inheritance of the dress might be one of sorrow.
  — Han Ong, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
• But the law of inheritance was structured so that property would flow from men to men.
  — Karin Wulf, Smithsonian, 18 June 2019
• The timeline starts ticking based on the date of inheritance.
  — Roxana Popescu, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
• Once the terms of the inheritance are disclosed, do not dwell on the division of the spoils.
  — Mark A. Stein Rate.com, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
• Yet the public has little chance of learning how much that inheritance will be.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022
• For instance, an inheritance could be up for grabs or you may be approved for a very large line of credit.
  — Kyle Thomas, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
• So, did Alex check all of the items off the list and receive her mystery inheritance?
  — Jordana Comiter, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025
• Was this some cruel right of passage that would truly link me to that part of the world, or to my inheritance?
  — Raffi Joe Wartanian, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2020
• But my father thought I might be hoodwinked out of my inheritance.
  — Pat Kapowich, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2024
• True inheritance is not just about reinventing the past.
  — Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025
• Abby then takes matters into her own hands to get rid of the threat to their inheritance money.
  — Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024
• In the film, the pistol feels like both an inheritance from the father and a symbol of spirit.
  — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
• That’s thanks to inheritance, yes, but also career gains.
  — Danielle McNally, InStyle, 17 June 2026
• Exploring the inheritance of the past…in a lyric, Bruce sang.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2025