Use of ancestor in Sentences. 28 Examples

The examples include ancestor at the start of sentence, ancestor at the end of sentence and ancestor in the middle of sentence

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ancestor at the end of sentence


  1. She has worshipped her ancestor.
  2. The two species share a common ancestor.
  3. The three species evolved from a single ancestor.
  4. All these breeds descend from some wild ancestor.
  5. Many species have diverged from a single ancestor.
  6. Lions and house cats evolved from a common ancestor .
  7. A lot of the people there are descended from a common ancestor.
  8. Humans and other apes followed separate lines of descent from a common ancestor.

ancestor in the middle of sentence


  1. Cain becomes an ancestor, and Abel does not.
  2. Aeneas is the pater, the ancestor, the proto-Roman.
  3. This machine is the ancestor of the modern computer.
  4. Babbage's invention was the ancestor of the modern computer.
  5. Man was evolved from an ancestor that was probably arboreal.
  6. The ancestor of the modern bicycle was called a penny farthing.
  7. This wooden instrument is the ancestor of the modern metal flute.
  8. Pre-Columbian ancestor worship finds expression in prayers to the saints.
  9. The builder of the manor house is a direct ancestor of the present owner.
  10. The direct ancestor of the modern cat was the Kaffir cat of ancient Egypt.
  11. All she is fit for is to suckle a baby, that ancestor woman, that white ghost.
  12. The wild Rock Dove is the ancestor of the Domestic Pigeon, with its varied plumages.
  13. Ray was knocking them down one by one, unlike his tragic ancestor who only knocked himself down.
  14. A gene has only one criterion by which posterity judges it: whether it becomes an ancestor of other genes.
  15. After all, these islands have been steeped for centuries in everything from witchcraft to ancestor worship.
  16. Like his rebel ancestor, Buchanan is fighting a lost cause with prideful determination despite overwhelming odds.
  17. Just one lone ancestor standing in the spotlight without anyone or anything else the current generation can blame.
  18. They also amused themselves with the speculation that their ancestor had escaped from the Titanic in women's clothing.
  19. All plants and animals are, with hindsight, the same because they all descend from an ancestor three billion years old.
  20. Folk-song is the direct ancestor of lyric poetry, and the simplest artistic form that unites the Apolline and the Dionysiac.

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