Example sentences for: hereditary

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

  • Brilliant as they are at avoiding anything that smacks of principle, the Blairites now have a second chamber with almost a hundred "chosen" hereditary peers, and the remainder a bunch of party appointees.

  • Istanbul was forced to recognize this powerful thorn in its side as a semi-autonomous part of the empire, and granted hereditary status to the role of Pasha of Egypt.

  • The process of understanding genetic disease typically proceeds through three stages: first, recognition of the disease state or syndrome including its hereditary character; second, discovery and mapping of the related mutation(s); and third, elucidation of the biochemical/biophysical mechanism leading to the disease phenotype.

  • Britain's Daily Telegraph reported Friday that the House of Lords split over a point of grammar in a bill to abolish its hereditary members.

  • Unfortunately, hereditary monarchy has offsetting drawbacks, which I assume I don't need to enumerate for the readers of Slate .


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