Ancestry has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Yanni was born to a father of Algerian ancestry and a mother of Dutch ancestry. | |
| 2. | He is of noble ancestry. | |
| 3. | He is of Japanese ancestry. | |
| 4. | However, the singer does not deny her ancestry. | |
| 5. | Selena Gomez is of Mexican and Italian ancestry. | |
| 6. | He said that he had Eskimo ancestry. | |
| 7. | The coccyx is a vestigial feature that shows the common ancestry of mankind and apes. | |
| 8. | Despite my related ancestry, I'm not interested in Judaism. | |
| 9. | No nation can fully understand itself or find its place in the world if it does not look with clear eyes at all the glories and disgraces, too, of the past. We, in the United States, acknowledge such an injustice in our own history: The internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry was a great injustice, and it will never be repeated. | |
| 10. | Five to seven percent of the population of Paraguay is of German ancestry. |