How to Use scion in a Sentence

scion

noun

• He's a scion of a powerful family.
• But the law finally caught up with the Malaysian scion.
  — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• Select and store healthy scion wood for grafting fruit and nut trees.
  — oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2022
• Branches from the rootstock may have a different type of leaf than the branches from the scion.
  — oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2022
• Since then, as is common for corporate scions, he has been fast-tracked up the ranks.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• The train has backing from Mexican scion Carlos Slim, one of the richest people in the world.
  — Levi Bridges, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2022
• Season two will see a new case, about the murder of the scion of a powerful oil family.
  — Town & Country, 6 Mar. 2023
• Indeed, Rosalind may be a scion of the haute bourgeoisie, but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been pain and suffering in her life.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022
• Murdaugh, 54, is the scion of a legal dynasty in the state’s Lowcountry region.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2022
• For the first two years, the roots, stems and scion are typically grown separately.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
• The brash real estate scion is among the many high-profile bidders for a casino complex in New York City.
  — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• And on Thursday, the Manning family scion revealed his new path.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 23 June 2022
• As a scion of a family of winners, in a town defined by ssireum, no one can explain his failure.
  — Geoffrey Bunting, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
• Growers bud two or three scions of a rose cultivar onto the tree trunk to create a bushy, full flowering head on top of the tree.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
• The supermodel scion paired her boxy, oversized suit with a pair of sensible black patent leather heels.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2023
• And the humble scion of the George Martin family would be the last to claim that this new version marks an improvement, per se, on what went out into the world in ’66.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 June 2023
• The reggae artist/scion has stayed busy with a steady stream of music over the past few years after releasing his debut EP, Higher Place, in 2020.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2022
• The fifth generation scion of the Birla clan is the eldest of Kumar Birla’s three children.
  — Anu Raghunathan, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Blunt, the scion of a Missouri dynasty, was likely to uphold that tradition as his state’s governors had for the last 60 years.
  — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023
• Her new novel, Meant to Be, chronicles the love story between the famed scion of a Kennedy-like family and a model with a troubled past.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 30 May 2022
• The 49-year-old scion has a formidable partner in Shankar, a former underling at Fox.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022
• Alex Murdaugh, 54, the once powerful scion of a South Carolina legal dynasty, is on trial for the slayings of his wife and son.
  — Fox News, 10 Feb. 2023
• The 28-year-old Ambani scion helms Reliance’s green energy business.
  — Anto Antony, Fortune Asia, 1 Mar. 2024
• So, for Rush, the scion of a wealthy family in oil and shipping and the descendant of America’s powerful, money was the answer.
  — Abigail Geiger, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2023
• White is said to have warned Nesbit to steer clear of Thaw, as the architect had always disliked the scion, but had no concrete reasons behind his disdain.
  — Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful, 25 Jan. 2022
• Months after the Dodson case has come to an end, the scion of a powerful oil family is brutally murdered.
  — Katie Reul, Variety, 7 Dec. 2022
• The pardon of the Samsung scion has enjoyed widespread public support in South Korea: Around 77% were in favor of the move, according to recent polling.
  — Jiyoung Sohn and Hakyung Kim, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• The family scion, Agustín Edwards Ossandón, a railroad baron and banker, was the richest man in nineteenth-century Chile.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 15 May 2023
• After the British arrived, Tu, a scion of a chiefly family on Tahiti, dealt cleverly with the newcomers.
  — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2022
• An article on Wednesday about a legal scion expected to be charged with the murders of his wife and son said that a gunshot fired at Alex Murdaugh did not hit him.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2022

Last Updated: 6 May 2024