We found 21 examples of how to use ancestor in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 21 of 21.
| # | Sentence | |
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| 1. | During O-bon, Japanese people believe they receive a visit from an ancestor. | |
| 2. | English and German share a common ancestor. | |
| 3. | All living beings would have evolved from a common ancestor. | |
| 4. | Don't be ridiculous! We are not descended from apes, we only have a common ancestor. | |
| 5. | All humans on Earth are descended from a common ancestor. | |
| 6. | We did not evolve from monkeys. We share a common ancestor. | |
| 7. | A group of languages related via a common ancestor, or proto-language, is referred to as a language family. | |
| 8. | Unlike 'weasel', the Proto-Germanic ancestor of the word 'stoat' has not been established. | |
| 9. | A proto-language is the common ancestor of a group of languages or dialects. | |
| 10. | My ancestor was a Mongolian horseman. | |
| 11. | Israel is my ancestor, not my country. | |
| 12. | Latin, Greek, Persian, and Sanskrit descended from a common ancestor. | |
| 13. | English, Russian, and Hindi descend from a common ancestor language. | |
| 14. | English, Russian, Spanish, and Hindi descend from a common ancestor language. | |
| 15. | Skura named her son after the eponymous ancestor of the Ayt Yanni tribe in Kabylie, Algeria. | |
| 16. | My ancestor Levi was a borderline-genocidal murderer, but I think the best message of Judaism is that we can all be righteous if we choose to. | |
| 17. | We have a common ancestor. | |
| 18. | In Mexico, it is believed that on the Day of the Dead, if you put your ancestor's picture on an altar with offerings for them, or "ofrenda", their soul will cross from the land of the dead to visit the land of the living. | |
| 19. | Tom's ancestor was a member of England's landed gentry. | |
| 20. | We're all immigrants, if not in first person, then definitely in the form of some relative or ancestor. | |
| 21. | I'm named after my ancestor. |