family tree

Example Sentences

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BBC Sport sits down with the 32-year-old, and speaks to his father Makasi, to piece together a tale of power, betrayal and survival which reads more like a political thriller than a family tree.

From BBC

After my mom died, there were even more people in the family tree who could have laid claim to the candlesticks, but they are in my dining room, because I was my mom’s eldest daughter.

From MarketWatch

The nonprofit Helpusadopt.org sells beaded bracelets with a gold leaf charm symbolizing the family tree.

From Seattle Times

But each of these transitory examinations skims the surface of what that may mean, making their cases through features captured in portraits or suppositions based on her family tree.

From Salon

Did the mammalian family tree branch out only after the extinction of the dinosaurs, some 66 million years ago?

From New York Times