How to Use family history in a Sentence

family history

noun
  • Your case has to do with your family history.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 1 Mar. 2026
  • How much of it was about bringing in your own family history?
    — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Doctors say adults should know their family history and get checked if symptoms do not go away.
    — Dr. Ishani D. Premaratne, ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Maybe your family history dates back and there's a long-standing story that gets passed down.
    — Will Richmond, The Providence Journal, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Nitsche had never smoked, and had no family history of lung cancer.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The artist’s own approach to fashion ties back to his family history.
    — Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Some of the risk factors for heart disease are out of your control, like your family history.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • None had dementia, though many had a family history of it.
    — Rob Williams, EverydayHealth.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The film noted that there’s a family history of heart disease.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Many times, there is a family history in which a father, or grandfather owned one.
    — David Krumboltz, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Get checked, know your family history and take the necessary steps to protect your health.
    — Corein Carter, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Schlossberg’s family history has been marked by loss.
    — Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 30 Dec. 2025
  • There's a lot of star power and rich family history there, but Jamie made a name for herself in her own right.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Most poignant is the way addiction snakes through family history.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Walk in, and the owner is probably gonna know your name, your order and your family history.
    — Haley Laurence | [email protected], al, 20 July 2023
  • Pham, who has no family history of the disease, first suffered from kidney issues at the age of nine.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
  • For people with no family history and no symptoms, your first colonoscopy should be at age 45.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The main risk factor is family history.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Preston does have a family history of heart disease.
    — Lindsey Leake, NBC news, 3 Jan. 2026
  • But there is much more to this complicated family history, even a mystery or two.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
  • If the patient brings up a new aspect of their family history, Art will capture that.
    — Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
  • It’s inspired by your own family history.
    — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • What stories from your own life — or your family history — feel at risk of being forgotten?
    — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 30 May 2026
  • With her family history of breast cancer, using a chatbot for health advice feels too risky.
    — ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • With her family history of breast cancer, using a chatbot for health advice feels too risky.
    — ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • But just as Allen was getting his feet wet in the guiding business, his family history grabbed him.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2026
  • Grady is dead and this nightmare chapter in the Buckley family history is over.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 23 June 2025
  • The condition is most common in people with a family history of it.
    — Sarah Jividen, Health, 12 Sep. 2024
  • But what the researchers thought was a new species has a complicated family history.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Yet that sort of farming marked only a brief moment in Wood’s family history.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023

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