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.
• The irony, of course, is that the Dream was our inheritance.
  — Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Exploring the inheritance of the past…in a lyric, Bruce sang.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2025
• So, did Alex check all of the items off the list and receive her mystery inheritance?
  — Jordana Comiter, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025
• The inheritance and the title go to the firstborn son, and the daughters are married off for profit and not for love.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022
• Alex must finish the entire list by New Year’s to claim the inheritance.
  — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 29 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
• They were told a copy of the inheritance agreement was kept in storage away from Seoul and would take weeks to retrieve.
  — Victoria Kim, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• The timeline starts ticking based on the date of inheritance.
  — Roxana Popescu, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
• All this talk about an AbEx inheritance … was a van Gogh groupie hiding in there all along?
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
• Bill had to share the inheritance with his estranged nieces and nephews.
  — Christine Fletcher, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• How the inmate chooses to handle the inheritance is between him and the BOP.
  — Dallas News, 3 July 2022
• This spouse wants to keep an inheritance secret from the other spouse.
  — Liz Weston, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2023
• Prior to inheritance changes, Graceland was opened to the public for tours in 1982.
  — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 21 Mar. 2023
• Rather than listen to the advice, Collins gave away his inheritance in his 20s.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2021
• Frank withdrew his modest inheritance and bought a house in the small Catskills town of Woodstock.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 28 Aug. 2021
• Under the new laws, inheritance will be governed by the laws of the deceased’s home country.
  — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020
• Call it hopeful naïveté, call it instinct or call it a kind of inheritance, but the two young actors, then just 19 and 20, were right.
  — Cat Cardenas, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• With a trust, a landowner could pass an inheritance to a wife and younger children as well as preclude any payments to the lord.
  — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2021
• The pair then flew to Switzerland to prepare documents for Hornigold’s inheritance with a banker and a lawyer.
  — Charley Ross, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2025
• But the law of inheritance was structured so that property would flow from men to men.
  — Karin Wulf, Smithsonian, 18 June 2019
• But in this case the inheritance is not about the country house or the Old Master but about a philanthropic heritage.
  — Benjamin Soskis, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2022
• Liam Payne left his kin with a big inheritance before his death.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 21 Oct. 2024
• Of course, any money the inheritance earns would be taxable.
  — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2023
• Besides a low cost of living and high livability scores, Florida’s lack of state income tax and inheritance taxes is a huge draw.
  — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
• The series explores the intergenerational inheritance of fears and disorders through the lives of two young women whose stories intertwine with the account of an incident that occurred in 1935.
  — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 1 Sep. 2025