Example sentences for: descendent

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

  • Enteringthemaincourtyard of the temple, you will findaperistylehall(with onerowofsupporting columns)decoratedwith flutedcolumns that werecommissioned by the Queen Hatshepsut,andseveralimpressivestatuesofRamses II in black and red granite.Perhapsthemostfascinating element of the hall is the Mosque of Abu El Haggag which was built within the temple complex to protect the tomb of a 12th-century descendent of Mohammed’s brother-in-law.

  • Nina Otero was born in Los Lunas, New Mexico, a town named after her grandfather’s family, a descendent of an early influential Hispanic family.

  • Online polls are a direct descendent of newspaper and magazine straw polls, which were popular in the 19 th and early 20 th centuries.

  • , [ 23 24 ] ]. The middle repetitive fraction was viewed as the descendent of once active TEs that had the misfortune of inserting into transcriptionally inert heterochromatin at some point in their evolutionary history [e.g.

  • The bato loco, or vato loco, is the descendent of the pachuco and a close relation of today’s cholo (urban youth).


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