How to Use lineage in a Sentence

lineage

noun
  • Sharp fits into that lineage well.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 25 June 2026
  • Murashige belongs to the same lineage.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 May 2026
  • How far back into the Kennedy lineage will this show go?
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 5 Mar. 2026
  • But over time our lineage started walking on two legs.
    — Steven Lautzenheiser, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2025
  • There’s a lineage of comedic performers who do this.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Kaho‘ano comes from a hula lineage, and so leis have a special place in her heart.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
  • The present dispute sits squarely in that lineage.
    — Jay Caruso, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026
  • This guy who murdered him took his whole lineage from him, from us, by cutting off his life.
    — USA Today, 26 June 2023
  • These are societies in which lineage is passed down from the mother.
    — Eliza Anyangwe and Melissa Mahtani, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023
  • There is a long lineage of artists turning their homes into artworks.
    — Erika Landström, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • There’s a long lineage of revenge plots in fiction and drama and film, of course.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2026
  • Trayvon Martin’s story is part of the same lineage.
    — Beandrea July, IndieWire, 29 Jan. 2026
  • My biracial lineage has resulted in thick hair, though very fine strands.
    — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The lineage begins well before him.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Slavers didn’t keep records of family lineages and the enslaved couldn’t do so.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Eli comes from a proud lineage of military service.
    — Ross Guidotti, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The lineages appear to have co-existed in the region for a time.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Spicomellus suggests that these were present right from the start, so they must have been lost from many lineages.
    — ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The tennis player comes from a football lineage.
    — Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • This one belongs to a lineage with roots stretching back roughly half a billion years.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The higher the percentage, the more time has passed and the more distinct the lineage.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The bagel’s lineage stretches back much further than New York.
    — Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023
  • Infinite Coles has always felt the weight of his lineage.
    — Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a lineage of people who’ve done this work and who are doing it now, which is so exciting to me.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026
  • There’s a long lineage of Black male doctors on television.
    — Essence, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This lineage is a descendant of the Omicron variant of the virus.
    — Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Today, the brand builds on this lineage with the invention of random guilloche, a world first.
    — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 25 May 2023
  • Unlike Charcot, Wells is able to fuse with her subject, to join her in a lineage.
    — Hannah Zeavin, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
  • That lineage alone demanded more than a modest refresh.
    — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2026
  • To finally know her true lineage is to understand that fitting in was never in the cards for her.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 27 May 2026

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