descendant
Example Sentences
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Garvey envisaged a new nation built by the descendants of African slaves.
From Salon
Others, such as Elon Musk, talk about producing children as both necessary to offset declining population growth and a flex to colonize the galaxy with one’s descendants.
The country’s minority whites, mainly descendants of Dutch and other European settlers in South Africa, are some of the richest in the continent’s most advanced economy, owning vast farmlands, factories and other business empires.
Francisco and his wife, Lucia, left Mexico for a better life in the early 1900s, so it’s hard to imagine what they would make of their thoroughly Americanized descendants today.
From Los Angeles Times
I know this because I myself am a “descendant” of an Afghan immigrant from a “broken homeland,” and I grew up immersed in these narratives.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
