ancestral
Example Sentences
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To his relief, his parents gave up too and, together with the Adjoyis, decided to move to Tovime, their ancestral home.
From Literature
Countries such as Benin and Sierra Leone also offer citizenship to people of African descent based on verified ancestral ties.
From BBC
Our dogs should be eating “real” food, they say, ideally raw meat—an “ancestral diet” that awakens their inner wolf.
For centuries, cats and Istanbul's residents have been very close, an ancestral culture that remains even today.
From Barron's
These days, Greenlanders are shocked by how few words their brethren can speak in their ancestral tongue—and by the poverty of Native Americans in Alaska.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
