ancestral

Example Sentences

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Leo is seeking to make these communities feel less isolated and to encourage them to remain in their ancestral lands.

From The Wall Street Journal

Although many living species share flexible skulls and other advanced traits, only the tuatara still retains a complete lower temporal bar, giving it a more ancestral appearance.

From Science Daily

It sounds like a marketing pitch and the company's slick packaging promises "ancestral ingredients" and the "power of purple fruits from the forest".

From BBC

Indigenous residents protest the potential desecration of their ancestral land.

From The Wall Street Journal

For the first time in centuries, a piece of ancestral territory belongs to the San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians.

From Los Angeles Times