Example sentences for: hereditary

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

  • The 1950s elite was based on blood and, to a much larger extent, looks--things that are totally and overwhelmingly hereditary.

  • But a government spokesman responded with a quotation from a second edition of the same reference book: " 'An' was formerly usual before an unaccented syllable beginning with 'h' and is still often seen and heard (an historian, an hereditary title).

  • The hereditary peers, nearly all of them conservatives, did not argue with the case for their own abolition, but repeatedly pointed out that a nonelected chamber consisting exclusively of government nominees would be even less democratic than one dominated by people who had arrived there by accident of birth.

  • Their long wars against the indigenous people established their leaders as kings with a hereditary divinity, which the Brahmins (the priests) exchanged for a privileged position of their own.

  • As was widely publicized, the Labor government earlier this month evicted 666 very Monty Python-ish hereditary peers ("Binkies") from the upper chamber, temporarily leaving 92 and otherwise putting the House of Lords in the hands of about 500 politically appointed life peers ("day boys"), whose title and membership dies with them.


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