How to Use ancestor in a Sentence

ancestor

noun

• Her ancestors were great sea captains.
• Latin is the ancestor of Italian and French.
• The museum included an exhibit showing ancestors of the modern computer.
• My ancestors came to America during the 1800s.
• Indeed, the shades of someone’s ancestor could be just a click away.
  — Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• There's no better way to celebrate your birthday than learning more about the ancestors that brought you here.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 4 Apr. 2023
• Swim bladders that control buoyancy in modern-day fish are thought to have evolved from the lungs of ancient ancestors.
  — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
• If any of your ancestors naturalized, giving up their Italian citizenship before the birth of the next person in line, the line ends there.
  — Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2023
• His poems interrogate lineage and slavery, and some are addressed to his children to teach them about what their ancestors endured and escaped to make their life possible.
  — Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
• Some estimates suggest that the Snowball Earth period might line up with the last common ancestor of animals.
  — Veronique Greenwood, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2024
• Most of them are Geechee, descendants of enslaved West Africans who have retained their ancestors’ unique language, culture, and traditions.
  — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2023
• Alternatively, the hobbit may descend from the larger H. erectus, thought to be a direct ancestor of modern humans in Africa.
  — Bybridget Alex, science.org, 6 Aug. 2024
• Pop artists may crib chord progressions from Bach or add string arrangements for sophistication, and pop music certainly wouldn’t exist without its classy ancestor.
  — Tim Greiving, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
• Not like our ancestors who died of scurvy at the age of 30.
  — Ali Wentworth, Glamour, 9 Aug. 2023
• The spirit of the ancestors has to make a statement in our lives.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 9 July 2023
• For Reti, value is in the spot in the river where his ancestors gave birth and the sacred ground where they’re buried.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• Epochs have passed since our last common ancestor roamed the Earth.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2024
• His ancestors, Catherine and William Brighton, arrived in Utah back in the 1850s.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
• Some of her ancestors also came from Cyprus in the Mediterranean.
  — Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
• Our early ancestors must have craned their necks in awe when a lightning bolt lit up the night sky.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• The last common ancestor of cats and dogs lived around 45 million years ago.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2024
• Her ancestors had come to this big-sky state in a covered wagon.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
• When and where did our ancestors first fashion footwear?
  — Charles Helm, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
• This suggests the ancestors of apes and humans were feasting on soft, sweet fruits, rather than on hard nuts and seeds.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
• And that’s where Martin Scorcese’s ancestors came from.
  — As Told To Vogue, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
• They are known for some distinct sets of chompers and are not a far cry from their living ancestors.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 July 2024
• With a love for all things outdoors, Green’s connection to soil dates back to her ancestors.
  — Pauleanna Reid, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• The blechnum had made it after all, just as its ancestor did 66 million years ago.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• The oral histories of many present-day tribes link their ancestors to earthen mounds.
  — AZCentral.com, 5 June 2023
• Dogs and wolves look and behave very much alike because of this common ancestor.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2023

Last Updated: 12 Sep 2024