How to Use ancestry in a Sentence

ancestry

noun

• She claims to be able to trace her ancestry all the way back to the earliest settlers.
• They claim to be of noble ancestry.
• Most are Black and can trace their ancestry to parts of the world spanning sub-Saharan Africa through the Mediterranean.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
• Pisces is your fourth house of home, family, ancestry, and land.
  — Kirah Tabourn, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Feb. 2023
• Three of the group’s members are targeted by the Nazis owing to their Jewish ancestry.
  — Vulture, 13 Nov. 2023
• But much of Irsina’s global appeal has to do with ancestry.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
• Woods' mother once referred to her ancestry as Thai, Chinese and Dutch.
  — Jonathan Landrum Jr., Quartz, 13 Feb. 2024
• He was born in Sweden of Georgian ancestry while his parents were born in Turkey.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2024
• However, Oberon hid her Sri Lankan ancestry and passed for white.
  — Town & Country, 12 Mar. 2023
• The Norwegian princess can trace her ancestry back to Britain’s Queen Victoria.
  — Mark Lewis, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
• Chemical tests could reveal the diets and ancestry of the people.
  — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• Next, the research team hopes to study other genetic databases to see if the same link holds true for people of other ancestries.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
• This is why the name is more widely used, though areas of great Celtic ancestry such as Scotland and Wales still refer to the celebration as Beltane.
  — Kate Franke, Woman's Day, 25 Apr. 2023
• What’s more, the term Afro-Latino is often used to describe Latinx people with African ancestry.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 22 Aug. 2023
• Ludwig van Beethoven’s impressive head of hair is yielding new clues about his health problems and his ancestry.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2023
• The Crown gave a brief flashback to the Romanov family in season 5, which inspired Prince Philip to look further into his ancestry.
  — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
• The researchers compared the ancient horses’ DNA with that of modern horses and found that the centuries-old equines had largely Spanish ancestry.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• Most people in northern Europe today can trace their ancestry to this group.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
• Roughly seventy per cent of us have some Yamnaya ancestry in our DNA.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Living abroad, her need to connect with her ancestry became more intense.
  — Juan De Dios Sánchez Jurado, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2023
• The team also found that 1 to 2 percent of Indian ancestry comes from Neanderthals and Denisovans.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
• So, teaching kids about their ancestry gives them the material to begin telling these stories.
  — Jenna Wirth, Parents, 15 Mar. 2024
• Most of the victims, 64.5% were targeted due to their race, ethnicity or ancestry.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, ajc, 13 Mar. 2023
• For Black women, hair is about our ancestry, our being, our identity.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2023
• Bernier, who grew up here in a family of French ancestry that’s been on the island since 1648, is the island’s main conservationist and its consummate tour guide.
  — Ross Kenneth Urken, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
• But Cote, a 39-year-old graduate student of Filipino ancestry, never gave up.
  — Agreen, oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023
• The director, who was born in Omaha but boasts Greek ancestry, was also grilled about his relationship to the host country.
  — Savina Petkova, Variety, 6 Nov. 2023
• To the researchers’ surprise, no signs of Iron Age Italian ancestry were identified in individuals from each stage of the empire.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• Unlike the often grim Grimm’s fairy tales of European ancestry, none of the morals of these stories are driven home with violence or punishment.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024
• More people being willing to acknowledge their ancestry may have also played a role.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024