progeny

Example Sentences

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“It was an odd pairing: Harold Macmillan, the inhibited, repressed publisher’s son, and Bob Boothby, the warm, witty progeny of an Edinburgh banker,” writes Lynne Olson.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

Objectively, a family, a nation, even a civilization’s measure of enduring success has to be the survival and nurturing of its progeny.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2024

She’s a PhD student who disappears into some kind of meditation retreat invented by reality-star progeny Penelope Disick.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024

In less time than it takes to say “arachnophobia,” it will escape, reproduce like a bandit and send its deadly progeny scampering into every unsealed nook and cranny.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024

I saw a family of weaver birds work together for months on a nest that became such a monstrous lump of sticks and progeny and nonsense that finally it brought their whole tree thundering down.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver