descendant
Example Sentences
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The Forgotten Children Initiative has already located the descendants of six of the buried children.
From Barron's
One skeptic suggested that authors’ descendants be allowed to sue mediums for signing their relative’s famous names to such dreadful new writing.
From Literature
Mr. Boyes wonders if any current descendants of Henry—any similarly gargantuan beasts—are still roaming the planet, then sets out to find them, if they exist.
Very few dinosaurs show evidence of this feature, although birds, which are living descendants of dinosaurs, have them, as do mammals.
From Science Daily
He has recently constructed "a memorial for the descendants of Africans, the diaspora... whom we have told for a long time that history began with slavery, with colonisation".
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
