ancestral

Example Sentences

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Leo is seeking to make these communities feel less isolated and to encourage them to remain in their ancestral lands.

From The Wall Street Journal

Although many living species share flexible skulls and other advanced traits, only the tuatara still retains a complete lower temporal bar, giving it a more ancestral appearance.

From Science Daily

To explore the sacs' origins, the researchers turned to bones from three ancestral dinosaur species.

From Scientific American

She thinks they were a way for common people to honor the building’s long history and their ancestral connection to it during a time of political and social upheaval that may have threatened those bonds.

From Science Magazine

Many of Colombia’s enslaved and Indigenous communities combined Western Christian culture with their own ancestral traditions.

From New York Times