heritage

Example Sentences

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For Ortiz, this part of his heritage, his father and grandmother struggling to communicate with the world around them in a new city, connects with “Project Hail Mary.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

I’m a heritage or vestigial Catholic, at best.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Growing up as a teenager of mixed heritage in Wrexham in the 1990s, Natalie Edwards remembers struggling to find services or understanding of how to care for her afro hair.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

That heritage gave both him and the backcountry settlers he epitomized their combative sense of equality and dignity—rooted in the history of British impositions on their ancestral lands in Ulster.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

But he had a history of taking over territories he considered German, and he and his ambassadors believed that people of German heritage owed “complete subservience” to their “home country.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield