generations

Example Sentences

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Zimmermann, who works in Zurich, would love to return to the town his family called home for three generations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Hunting communities passed knowledge across generations and adjusted their strategies as environmental conditions changed.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

Mason said generations of local families had worked at the site and warned: "It's going to be a huge loss to this town."

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

“It is a shortsighted approach to asset management that invites long-term risk—a strategic failure that will ultimately be paid for by future generations of students and the long-term health of the endowment itself.”

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Not even twenty minutes had passed after we’d scarfed down the entire plate of cookies, when Tamika’s gut interrupted my explanation of mutations in DNA over thousands of generations to create a new species.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas