Example sentences for: heirs

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

  • Other prominent stories in the British press included Thursday's $90 million record-breaking sale at Christie's in London of a famous art collection looted by the Nazis from the Austrian Rothschilds in 1938 and recently restored to their American heirs, and the news that fox hunting is almost certain to be abolished in Britain now that Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he will support legislation against it.

  • King's real heirs are those who, like him, see affirmative action not as a panacea or an end in itself, but as one of many ways to reduce the gap between blacks and the rest of American society bequeathed to us by history.

  • Many political conservatives argue that the government taxes an estate's assets several times over--first when the money is earned, then when it is invested, and finally when it's transferred to heirs.

  • The communes were strong enough to confine German Emperor Frederick Barbarossa’s Italian ambitions to the south, where he secured Sicily for his Hohenstaufen heirs by marrying his son into the Norman royal family.

  • The NYT , LAT , and USAT front, and the WP stuffs, word that an arbitration panel has ruled that the government must pay the heirs of Abraham Zapruder $16 million for the movie he shot of the Kennedy assassination.


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