lineage

Example Sentences

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With “Linaje” — it translates to lineage, a term often associated with nobility and pedigree — the brothers are intent on sharing their hard-earned success with those they love most.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Those of ancient lineage may be thinking of the infamous LBJ phone call badgering the head of ABC to get college-football broadcasts for Lady Bird’s TV station.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

One participant explained how they had acquired some sperm from an anonymous internet donor abroad, with untraceable lineage.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

The research was published in Cell under the title "Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage."

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

I thought of my father and his parents, my mother and her parents, each family’s respective lineage and history of participation in social movements—Garvey on one side and Booker T. Washington on the other.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey