How to Use scion in a Sentence

scion

noun
  • He's a scion of a powerful family.
  • Select and store healthy scion wood for grafting fruit and nut trees.
    — oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Since then, as is common for corporate scions, he has been fast-tracked up the ranks.
    — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • And of course, the handsome scion, before he’s fully formed.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Pruning out the suckers will not harm either the rootstock or the scion.
    — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2021
  • The global 1 percent, and their spoiled scions like Vanya, don’t live like that.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2024
  • But the scion of the Kennedy clan remains shy about the exact size of his own fortune.
    — Kim Janssen, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2017
  • The eighth-generation scion doesn’t take her new role lightly.
    — Naazneen Karmali, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Branches from the rootstock may have a different type of leaf than the branches from the scion.
    — oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2022
  • So does Muppet scion Lisa Henson.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Quaid, the scion of rom-com royalty, has adorable longing down pat.
    — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Season two will see a new case, about the murder of the scion of a powerful oil family.
    — Town & Country, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The committee is run by a scion of a wealthy Coral Gables family.
    — Nicholas Nehamas and Joey Flechas, miamiherald, 6 June 2017
  • But what actually does losing it all mean to a descendant of scions?
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
  • The ruling comes after the Samsung scion spent nearly a year behind bars.
    — Laignee Barron, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Yet, there was friction between the racing scion and many inside F1.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Likewise, the sugars produced by the green leaves of a scion cannot be shared with the lower stem and roots of the plant if the graft fails.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • For the first two years, the roots, stems and scion are typically grown separately.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Workers in a nursery can graft scion wood from a different tree onto that rootstock and a third apple may arise.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Due to the graft between the rootstock (in the soil), and the scion plant (above the graft), that area is susceptible to cold injury.
    — oregonlive, 23 Nov. 2019
  • The rootstock is chosen for its disease resistance and the scion or above-ground part of the plant is chosen for its foliage and fruit.
    — oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Indeed, Rosalind may be a scion of the haute bourgeoisie, but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been pain and suffering in her life.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Duhamel looks much too old to play naive young steel-industry scion Sheldon Sampson in the flashbacks.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2021
  • In the war between two scions of the long-reigning Targaryen clan, there are no winners, least of all the realm each contender hopes to rule.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 14 June 2024
  • Elsewhere, a Kennedy scion fell short, and two longtime incumbents fended off challengers.
    — Alex Lemonides, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • One is a grandee of Wall Street dealmaking, the other a scion of Goldman Sachs.
    — Sonali Basak, Bloomberg.com, 19 Nov. 2020
  • In real life, the Kennedy scion did receive such a letter and broke up with then-girlfriend Bessette as a result.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The Samsung scion still faces his own legal issues, in a courtroom back and forth that has kept his name and the name of his empire in the headlines.
    — New York Times, 6 May 2020
  • But the convictions were recently overturned, leading to the legal scion’s return to court.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026
  • Quinn starts crushing on Cole (Carson MacCormac) who is the scion of the town’s founders.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 9 May 2025

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