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Example sentences for: descendant

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Babur the Tiger, descendant of Timur the Lame and of Genghis Khan, accepted their welcome but made no promises.
Don Carlos, a descendant of Louis XIV who saw himself as a southern Sun King — with Caserta Palace as his Versailles — is best remembered for launching the excavations of Pompeii in 1748.
Times staff's cultlike attachment to Otis Chandler--the former publisher and descendant of the paper's founding family, who last week wrote a letter supporting the staff revolt--seems typical of this ineffectuality.
He discovered a Minor descendant and found a trove of correspondence that makes the story much richer (and more factual) than what was otherwise known.
.. a descendant of Adriaen van Bergen, part owner of the famous turf boat in which a party of Dutch troops were clandestinely introduced in the year 1599 into the castle of that city.”