How to Use descendant in a Sentence

descendant

1 of 2 adjective
  • The pledge falls short of the $1 billion that descendant leaders had called on the Jesuits to raise.
    — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2021
  • In the meantime, read on for what your descendant sign (and planetary ruler) can say about your future love story.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The school hopes to draw in the descendant community in several ways.
    — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 31 July 2019
  • An in-law or stepchild is considered neither kindred nor descendant and will not inherit.
    — Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2020
  • The three ancestry options are hexbloods descendant from hags, dhampirs who have vampire blood and reborn who died and somehow returned.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • Unlike her forebear and descendant, Carmela was never written as a stock character.
    — Hazlitt, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Reaching for disco—and its descendant rave-inspiring subgenres—may appear to be a safe bet for a sonic reset.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The group was made up of friends of Ariana Rockefeller, the descendant grand-niece of the property's founder.
    — Avril Graham, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 May 2017
  • Other plantations have started programs that seek to give back to their descendant communities.
    — Washington Post, 7 June 2021
  • The descendant, or seventh house of intimacy, is the opposite sign of the ascendant, which describes our ideal mate.
    — Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The daughter of a free jazz saxophone player and a booking agent for afro-descendant music acts, Murray grew up in the music industry.
    — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2022
  • In wrestling with the economic legacy of slavery, one scene shows a descendant reading Lewis' words while sitting in an antebellum mansion.
    — Kim Chandler, ajc, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Student and community activists were at the center of calls to return the remains to descendant communities.
    — Jacquelyne Germain, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Today, local representatives from descendant communities visit the site twice a year and help guide the research.
    — Jon Hurdle, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2017
  • All of them are Catholic, too, while the broader descendant community has more religious diversity.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 3 June 2021
  • Seven decades later, that letter has been returned to a family descendant after resurfacing at a flea market in New York.
    — Sara Smart, CNN, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The discovery in 2019 of the sunken remains of the ship also brings to the surface many questions among the local descendant community.
    — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Most of Colombia’s Afro-descendant peoples hail from the torrid zones along the Pacific and Caribbean coasts.
    — Patrick J. McDonnellforeign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2022
  • What starts off as trash can become priceless artifacts, and the more that’s left to be buried and preserved for decades or centuries or millennia, the more descendant generations can learn about the ones that came before.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The two descendant groups have filed lawsuits over the Alamo project, seeking to be included in decisions on the treatment and disposition of uncovered remains.
    — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 17 June 2020
  • Black and Afro-descendant women in Colombia are at the heart of these songs, transmitting this legacy from generation to generation.
    — Karla Gachet, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
  • From Afro-descendant spiritualities to the revolution of the practice of resistance and love.
    — Vogue, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Our organization’s aim is not only to tell the full histories of sites but to foster the engagement of descendant communities and others in demanding a reckoning.
    — The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Race was invented by European colonists to provide an excuse for the systematic oppression of African-descendant people.
    — Kelley Fanto Deetz, The Conversation, 23 Aug. 2019
  • In 2019, Georgetown students voted to create a reparations fund that would serve the descendant community.
    — Michela Moscufo, ABC News, 30 July 2022
  • Though this year's homecoming won't be the same as a physical gathering, descendant Bryan Glover believes the pandemic has opened up their history to those outside the family.
    — Tiana Woodard, The Indianapolis Star, 2 July 2020
  • And in a museum context like that, non-Indigenous scientists didn’t necessarily have to go to a descendant community and ask for permission to do their research.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2023
  • In some of his papers, Linde represents his eternal chaotic inflation model as a thick hedge of branching bulbs, each bulb a separate universe, connected to ancestor bulbs and descendant bulbs by thin tubes.
    — Alan Lightman, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2021
  • By 2024, the team had added four more descendant donors—one related to Fitzjames (technically a second cousin five times removed through the captain’s great-grandfather).
    — ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026
  • For decades, the bottle lay undisturbed in the family cellar until 2011, following the death of descendant Patrick de Brou de Laurière.
    — Pin Yen Tan 9 Min Ago, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026

descendant

2 of 2 noun
  • Recent evidence supports the theory that birds are the modern descendants of dinosaurs.
  • One of the famous inventor's descendants is also an inventor.
  • Many people in this area are descendants of German immigrants.
  • The Italian language is one of Latin's descendants.
  • They were not joined by their descendants.
    — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • Fifty descendants had shown up for the most recent walk.
    — Beth Lew-Williams, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The law was changed to remove him and any descendants from the list.
    — Stephanie Nolasco , Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Asawa’s descendants keep close watch over the artist’s legacy.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Her house is still intact, and its tour guide is a direct descendant of hers.
    — Adam Gopnik, Town & Country, 20 May 2019
  • The new film charts Pablo's life and visits his descendants.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Many are descendants of those fighters.
    — Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Her descendants still live there today.
    — EW.com, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Today, his descendants still own it.
    — Big Think, 1 May 2026
  • These small donkeys, descendants of those brought to the area by miners, have free roam of the town.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The bank wants her descendants to stop forgetting it.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • And then there were those ancestors who lost all their living descendants to the wave.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2017
  • There was an idea that descendants had tenuous links to Italy over time.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Some of these places had all their community wiped out; there are no descendants.
    — Howard Blas, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 June 2018
  • The lawsuits gave those descendants the choice to either sell their stake in the land or bid for it at auction.
    — Guthrie Scrimgeour, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Their origins and politics vary, and some are the descendants of refugees.
    — Daniel Beekman, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2017
  • The small parrots are transplants from the other side of the world that are thought to be descendants of pet birds.
    — ABC News, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Officials had even grander hopes for the descendants of those rockets.
    — Big Think, 15 Oct. 2025
  • When a descendant tells students about the past, that is important.
    — Chad Gibbs, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Perhaps some descendants are there.
    — Beth Lew-Williams, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The man was a descendant of the Foster family, for which the farm is named.
    — Steve Smith, Hartford Courant, 5 May 2022
  • Direct payments are only one method the state could use to support the descendants of slaves.
    — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • Many, though not all, of these companies are still owned and run by the descendants of their founders all these years later.
    — Matt Durot, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Just what do these men have to do with the allegations leveled against their descendant?
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2022
  • This is the descendant of the language of Beowulf for crying out loud!
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2012
  • Gray was able to find descendants of the victims, but memories of stories proved hazy.
    — William Thornton, AL.com, 4 Apr. 2018

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