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Example sentences for: scions

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The town's first family reaches the end of the line when neither of its scions produces an heir.
She has been practicing for this inevitable terrible event lately, scoring Elizabeth Dole as Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , admitting to a fondness for John McCain, and having great fun at the expense of Al Gore and George W. Bush, the two scions likely to fight it out in 2000.
Surprisingly, only top grafting resulted in scions that were systemically silenced by a rootstock signal.
Respectable writers sneered at the tabs for their millions of lumpen readers; their fabricated or (worse) purchased stories; and their raffish British editors, who behaved more like blackmailers than like scions of the Fourth Estate.
Lines that showed silencing were used as rootstocks and nonsilencing lines were used as scions in three types of grafting experiments.