Example sentences for: ancestors

How can you use “ancestors” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Native American groups are fighting for official recognition of their holocaust, arguing that any apology to slaves must be paired with one to their own ancestors.

  • If Perot's message appealed to Yankee and Nordic progressives in the northern tier, his anti-establishment populism, and no doubt his flamboyant persona, appealed to the kind of voters whose ancestors had cheered on Huey P. Long and "Sockless Jerry" Simpson.

  • DNA evidence shows that Neanderthals were not our ancestors.

  • And whether or not our distant male ancestors often participated in actual "war," they probably fought other males and sometimes killed them.

  • The Census Bureau officially adopted the term "Hispanic" in 1970, applying it to any U.S. resident whose ancestors lived in Spain or a Spanish colony.


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