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Example sentences for: ancestors

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

[ 43], that eukaryotic GshBs did not evolve directly from bacterial GshBs, but rather that both evolved from ancestors that had the characteristic fold of the ATP-grasp superfamily.
These people’s ancestors arrived in Central America many thousands of years ago.
But the dome has at least a chance to follow in the path of its illustrious English ancestors, the Crystal Palace exhibition of 1851 and the Festival of Britain of 1951.
Why should whites who did not themselves discriminate against blacks be punished for what their or someone else's ancestors did?
They were created by the process of natural selection and thus, are inherently absurd--driven by impulses that exist today only because they helped our ancestors transmit their genes.