ancestral

Example Sentences

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Hemsley has taken a keen interest in the ancestral home, funding and leading a nonprofit that bought and restored the 7,000-square-foot brick house.

From The Wall Street Journal

Later Roman writers dressed up the Punic Wars as an ancestral vendetta of the Barcids, the family to which Hannibal belonged.

From The Wall Street Journal

Now living in the Nioronigué camp, he said that leaving his ancestral land hurt him deeply, but he sees no future back home for his family.

From BBC

"I pray and hope that peace will prevail... that people of all faiths will coexist forever," Biswas, 92, said outside her ancestral home in Abhaynagar, where three generations of her family were born.

From Barron's

These genes all originated from a single ancestral globin gene that existed around 800 million years ago.

From Science Daily