How to Use family tree in a Sentence

family tree

noun
  • A framed family tree hung on the wall.
  • Just up a rung on his family tree.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Still, there’s more to say about this family tree.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Some served as family trees, each loop of hair tagged with a name.
    — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2025
  • At the top of the family tree is the Platinum+ trim.
    — New Atlas, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Those points are then used to build a family tree for each person.
    — Dan Springer, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • And this was just one part of a family tree that’s now more like a forest.
    — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The Voice family tree doesn’t stop there, though.
    — Alyssa Davis, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
  • This cocktail was designed to be a new branch on a big family tree.
    — Aly Walansky, Forbes, 3 July 2021
  • No one had any idea another branch of the family tree was out there.
    — Jackie Montalvo, NBC News, 17 June 2018
  • The kits are fun, unique and perfect for learning more about your family tree.
    — Elsie Boskamp, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Erika’s talent runs deep on both sides of her family tree.
    — Sid Evans, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Matches were found with cousins on both sides of Bjerke’s family tree.
    — Washington Post, 11 June 2019
  • There were pastors on both sides of Gauff’s family tree, too.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 6 July 2019
  • But the family tree here tells a much deeper story.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The brutal pruning of the family tree might as well be a mercy killing.
    — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • And some of the hands are linked by complex networks of lines, like a modern family tree.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2018
  • Such a fate should have been enough to make Gannibal the star of his family tree.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The latest variant, omicron, came out of nowhere on the family tree of the virus.
    — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The narcissist in your family tree might be a parent, an adult child, even an in-law.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Two years after Tom hung up the green and gold, the next branch of the family tree has taken root.
    — Alex Murphy, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Live long and prosper…with frogs There are seven new species of tree frogs to add to the family tree.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Shout-out to the busty ladies in my family tree who passed down the good-boob DNA.
    — The Cut, 1 July 2018
  • Apes are the most recent offshoot of the primate family tree, and one of the less diverse.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
  • The website is used to do family tree searches and for church members to record baptisms of the dead.
    — Washington Post, 15 June 2018
  • But the placement of that block within the larger family tree was notably strange.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Los Dos Molinos gets its name from two chili grinders that were passed down on two sides of a family tree.
    — Eddie Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Or, although the portraits are large, they could be digitized and added to the family tree.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Houston Chronicle, 9 May 2018
  • His own family tree was a source of introspection.
    — Adelle Platon, VIBE.com, 24 June 2026
  • My bud blew the wedding off, creating a firestorm within his family tree.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026

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