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Sentence Examples The black-turbaned man with outsized feet, hands, girth, and ambition is a Sayyid, a direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammed. His mother was of mixed race, his father the descendant of West African slaves. Her name is Katherine Dockens and she is a lineal descendant of Richard Allen. Ann was a descendant of a family that could trace its ancestry back to the Norman Conquest. For decades plant biologists have been arguing about whether domestic maize is really a descendant of teosinte, a Mexican grass. The native Hawaiian descendant of the last kahuna nui in Waimea had to mortgage and lease the land. The safety skeleton is the direct descendant of the World Rally Car safety cage. The descendant was also an alumna of the school, and she agreed to donate samples of her blood for the project. A descendant of the now extinct Aztec, the language of the ancient Aztec empire, Nahuatl is spoken today by approximately 1 million people, mainly in Mexico. The codicil of the Law was added to the testament that God established with Abraham and his lineal descendant in order to awaken human consciousness to the reality of sin. The twang we hear as emblematic of white country music is actually the direct descendant of black folk music banjo. So a story prefigures Light in August, just as an ancestor precedes a descendant. It is common knowledge among those familiar with the rabbinic tradition that Haman was considered a descendant of the Amalekites. Staunchly imperialist, he is a living manifestation of quintessential Englishness, a living descendant of people with blue blood, noble quarterings, and the right school tie. Today, in a time of great national distress, Nehru's descendant cannot find the fiber to meet his people. Her mother, a descendant of Ashby, helped manage a sugar plantation her family inherited, bringing the story full circle. In the original Marvel comic books, the Mandarin was born and bred in China, a descendant of Genghis Khan no less. Gay liberation was the direct descendant of the Sixties antiwar movement and the sexual revolution. Boswell is a man of the modern West, a spiritual descendant of the Wallace Stegner school of writing. It was that he was, as the lineal descendant of King David, the Messiah. Show More Sentences Soap opera is the descendant of the melodramatic in televisual form. Little has been preserved in the historical records about Elisedd, who was a descendant of Brochwel Ysgithrog. As a descendant of Rhodri Mawr through his father Cadell, Hywel was a member of the Dinefwr branch of the dynasty. William de Braose was himself a descendant of Nesta verch Osborne of Wales through his mother Bertha of Hereford. Llywelyn was a descendant of the senior line of Rhodri Mawr and therefore a member of the princely house of Gwynedd. The New Zealand feral goat is the descendant of many breeds of goat, such as Angora, Kiko, Spanish, Pygora, Boer, Saanen, Nubian and Alpine. American stage, film, and television actor George Macready claimed to be a descendant. Roman art was influenced by Greece and can in part be taken as a descendant of ancient Greek painting. Swedish is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Era. The bulk of Haplogroup R is represented in descendant subclade R1, which likely originated on the Eurasian Steppes. This is especially important where the descendant group is sharply differentiated by gross anatomy and mode of living from the ancestral group. This was not a dedicated court of law, instead a descendant of the witenagemot. The tool performs a descendency check to ensure the object is in fact a descendant before allowing the operation to proceed. Modern hiragana is a descendant of various earlier versions now usually called hentaigana. In either case, it was far too early for such an account, and may have only served to remind Augustus that Claudius was Antony's descendant. Nero was more popular with the general public as the grandson of Germanicus and the direct descendant of Augustus. Mary rejected him, and instead married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, a descendant of Henry VII, giving Mary a stronger claim to the English throne. The present Earl is a direct descendant of this Cromwellian creation and Restoration recreation. Thus, he was the last patrilineal descendant of William I to be named stadtholder for the majority of the provinces. Its descendant languages are still spoken to a greater or lesser extent in Cornwall, Wales, and Brittany. Show More Sentences The Lancastrians faced a challenge from the House of York, so called because its head, a descendant of Edward III, was Richard, Duke of York. Speciation is the process where a species diverges into two or more descendant species. According to the poem, the Alban kings were descended from Aeneas, and thus Romulus, the founder of Rome, was his descendant. A later descendant of Cunedagius, King Gorboduc, has two sons called Ferreux and Porrex. Lennox was a descendant of Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland, also descended from James II, being Mary's heir presumptive. A memorial to this has been constructed on the shore at Lamlash, paid for by a Canadian descendant of the emigrants. Cunedda, incidentally, is represented as a descendant of one of Maximus' generals, Paternus, who Maximus appointed as commander at Alt Clut. A mathematics undergraduate and descendant of David Hume, Pinsent soon became Wittgenstein's closest friend. The descendant dialects of this tongue survive amongst the Mandaeans of southern Iraq and Assyrians of northern Iraq to this day. The Norn language formerly spoken in the islands, a descendant of the Old Norse of the Vikings, became extinct in the 18th or 19th century. It is a common misconception that every person who bears a clan's name is a lineal descendant of the chiefs. Owain I was the eldest male descendant of Rhodri the Great through paternal descent. Odin is a remote descendant of Thor, removed by twelve generations, who led an expedition across Germany, Denmark and Sweden to Norway. He was a descendant of the Lord mason of the castle of Balboa, which is located in northwestern Spain. This descendant of the great king who had defeated the Seljuks in 1141 planned to reconquer and rebuild Jerusalem. Howard Hughes, famed investor, pilot, film director, and philanthropist, was also of Huguenot descent and descendant from Rev. The Chuvash language was a descendant of the Bolgar language, spoken by the pagan Chuvash people. Despite their similarities, Late West Saxon is not considered to be a direct descendant of Early West Saxon. The silk shop endured until 1480, when the last descendant of that partner died. In the absence of a literal descendant of Aaron, a High priest in the Melchizedek priesthood is called to be a Bishop. Show More Sentences At times he portrayed himself as the descendant of a Scottish crofter, as a businessman, aristocrat, intellectual and soldier. Luke Taft was a descendant of the famous American Taft family which had its roots in Mendon and Uxbridge. In the 14th century, a Kong descendant went to Korea, where an estimated 34,000 descendants of Confucius live today. These descendant communities tend often to speak the local languages, although many also speak Marathi in addition. By the 1830s, the house and estate was in the ownership of Edmund's descendant Peter Hesketh, High Sheriff of Lancashire and MP for Preston. Martin Tvengsberg, a descendant the Forest Finns, studied them in his capacity as curator of the Hedmark Museum in Norway. He believes it could be the descendant of the Shropshire jungle cat from the 1980s, or a gigantic domesticated cat. Elisheva was a descendant of Aaron and thus a powerful priestly leader in her own right, as well as with her husband, Zechariah. The captain was an upstart, a product of the democratic idea operating upon the poor white man, the descendant of the indentured bondservant and the socially unfit. A transitional fossil is any fossilized remains of a life form that exhibits traits common to both an ancestral group and its derived descendant group. He was a remote descendant of Durin the Deathless, chief of the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves and ancestor to the Dwarven people to which Gimli belonged, the Longbeards. Vladimir Rozenblit, a 20th generation direct descendant of Zacuto. Today the syndicated daytime talk show is the straight-line mainstream descendant of the odditoriums and dunk-the-fool attractions of a century ago. The music and lyrics were composed and performed by Gonnie, a Zuni descendant who began singing at the age of five under the guidance of his father. It is a direct descendant of an operation called PRK and a distant cousin of the progenitor of all vision-correcting procedures, radial keratotomy. The Historia Brittonum describes the supposed settlement of Britain by Trojan expatriates and states that Britain took its name after Brutus, a descendant of Aeneas. This dynasty was later replaced by another founded by Meurig ap Tewdrig whose descendant Morgan ap Owain would give Glamorgan its Welsh name Morgannwg. The Basque language is the best candidate for a descendant of such a language, but since Basque is a language isolate, there is no comparative evidence to build upon. Late Bollywood heartthrob Parveen Babi was a descendant of the Babis. Camber was the son of Brutus, and a descendant of Aeneas of Troy. Show More Sentences Along with the other North Germanic languages, Swedish is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Era. Cadwallon consistently appears in the genealogies of the Kings of Gwynedd as the son of Cadfan ap Iago and a descendant of Maelgwn Gwynedd and Cunedda. Unlike organisms, a gene is passed down from a generation of organisms to the next generation either as perfect replicas of itself or as slightly mutated descendant genes. This colour scheme was the direct descendant of the colours worn by the precursor Aberdeen club, but lasted only one season before being replaced. Darnley shared a more recent Stewart lineage with the Hamilton family as a descendant of Mary Stewart, Countess of Arran, a daughter of James II of Scotland. Albanian is often seen as the descendant of Illyrian, although this hypothesis has been challenged by some linguists, who maintain that it derives from Dacian or Thracian. When William's descendant, William the Conqueror, conquered England in 1066, the Duchy of Normandy and the kingdom of England were governed under one monarch. I'm a descendant of an old Arab tribe here that is called the Sassanids. Those convictions were finally overturned on May 3, when Governor Brian Schweitzer, a descendant of German immigrants, posthumously pardoned 75 men and three women. The prime evidence for this theory was provided by a descendant of Clarke. Both of these horses were sons of Boston, a descendant of Sir Archy. Franz, Duke of Bavaria, head of the Wittelsbach family, is the most senior descendant of King Charles I and is considered by Jacobites to be the heir of the Stuarts. A descendant of the original tree can be seen growing outside the main gate of Trinity College, Cambridge, below the room Newton lived in when he studied there. One theory is that James may have suffered from porphyria, a disease of which his descendant George III of the United Kingdom exhibited some symptoms. It is uncertain why Richard chose this specific name, although during the Wars of the Roses it emphasised Richard's status as Geoffrey's patrilineal descendant. The same year, William the Conqueror, himself a descendant of Norwegian Vikings, successfully took the English throne and became the first Norman king of England. Examples from Classical Literature For a descendant of du Guesclin the coiffeur's son would, however, have been as inappropriate as was the notary. He was the only conjuror, the real one, a worthy descendant of the magicians of old. There was, first, his early purity of type as a descendant of the true pony that homed in these lands. Michizane was a descendant of Nomi-no-Sukune, and did not belong to the Fujiwara family. By the Salic law no woman or descendant of a woman could occupy the throne. Despite all this, their descendant was a mongrel, and barred by kennel law from any bench show. He, a descendant of the companion of Aeneas, to fear the carthaginian sword! Still more familiar to domestic eyes is that descendant of the Arab santir, the modern pianoforte. The Italian language for example is the child, the descendant of the Classical Latin. His descendant became, in right of his wife, coheir of the house of Sumeri, vested in Weoley-castle. The German sniper is really a lineal descendant of the impenitent thief. Directly or indirectly, the fish is a descendant of some Archaean Annelid. The descendant even of a slave from Cappadocia might rise to be a knight. And in Peru a brave descendant of the Incas arose as a deliverer. Imagine the look he would bestow on his descendant as I sat down to table. Rabbana Ashi was the son of sima, and the descendant of an ancient family. The horseradish is probably a descendant of this gigantic ancestor. And that same of a dreaded name was sonless, O descendant of Bharata! So did the high-born Ajax spoil Simosius, the descendant of Anthemion. Du Bois, the present librarian of Ardis, is a lineal descendant of this revolutionary pair. Show More Sentences You are the direct descendant of those Romans who carried off the Sabine women. And did not Biddy trace to Erin, mother and star of the breed, through a long descendant out of Breda Mixer, herself an ancestress of Breda Muddler? Major Hartmann was a descendant of a man who, in company with a number of his countrymen, had emigrated with their families from the banks of the Rhine to those of the Mohawk. Speaker, I wish to hurl back an allegation and explain that the spots upon me are the natural markings of one who is a direct descendant of the sun and a spotted fawn. Here, at least, the descendant of Alfred still reigns a princess. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of descendant? Words that rhyme with descendant What is the plural of descendant? What is the adverb for descendant? What is the adjective for descendant? What is the noun for descendant? Translations for descendant Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words descendancy descend descartes's Descartes descant descaling descendants descended descendent descendents descender descenders 10-letter Words Starting With d de des desc desce descen descend descenda descendan