How to Use family tree in a Sentence

family tree

noun

• A framed family tree hung on the wall.
• The hope is to create a family tree that will put a name to the mystery DNA.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2021
• Two years after Tom hung up the green and gold, the next branch of the family tree has taken root.
  — Alex Murphy, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2022
• The latest variant, omicron, came out of nowhere on the family tree of the virus.
  — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
• Such a fate should have been enough to make Gannibal the star of his family tree.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
• On the other side are 19 cousins from among the Cardin family tree who want to sell the company.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2023
• That one branch of her family tree had been in Mexico since the 1700s.
  — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2022
• Those points are then used to build a family tree for each person.
  — Dan Springer, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2023
• Royal family tree:Who will ascend to the throne after the queen's death?
  — USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
• To do this, though, the banana family tree must be clearer.
  — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• The brutal pruning of the family tree might as well be a mercy killing.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• So break out the family tree and prepare to go digging.
  — Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 1 Apr. 2022
• The Hulk family tree is truly something out of a soap opera.
  — Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2024
• This cocktail was designed to be a new branch on a big family tree.
  — Aly Walansky, Forbes, 3 July 2021
• They are being purchased for the family tree or for gifts.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Dec. 2021
• But their prior lives in Italy were nothing more to me than the names of towns and ancestors on a family tree.
  — David Botti, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• That the emu has so many of these genes excites Whittaker, because this bird sits near the base of the bird family tree.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 7 July 2021
• The narcissist in your family tree might be a parent, an adult child, even an in-law.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 9 Nov. 2021
• The more markers shared, the closer the relationship, and the smaller the family tree.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2021
• But Norton certainly isn’t a one-man branch in the family tree.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
• Natalie Diggs rebound the book and spent the next two decades using the Bible’s notes as a guide to build her family tree.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
• Inside the home, a white marker board hangs on a living room wall, bearing the branches of the family tree.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Apr. 2022
• Are all of our family trees already up for grabs now somewhere?
  — WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
• From there, officials built a family tree from the sample, which narrowed the search for the suspect down to the siblings.
  — NBC News, 4 Nov. 2021
• At a glass patio table overlooking the bay, Packard shows you one of his plot charts: a graph that looks like a family tree.
  — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
• But while Archaeopteryx is also from the Paraves group, some doubt where Archaeopteryx fits in the family tree.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2022
• Though Phillippe is not a descendant of Queen Victoria, the two do still share a family tree.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 23 May 2022
• Then take time to trace your dad's family tree to get a deeper look at your family's past and present.
  — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 29 Apr. 2022
• And the only name that seemed to intersect both of these family trees was a girl named Patricia McGlone.
  — Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024
• Donald Trump's family tree Unable to view our graphics?
  — Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024