How to Use family tree in a Sentence

family tree

noun

• A framed family tree hung on the wall.
• Making progress toward that will keep this poison out of the family tree’s root system.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2024
• The Pattersons are part of a strong coaching family tree.
  — al, 9 Sep. 2021
• McClary and two genealogists teamed up to trace Thomas’ family tree.
  — oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2021
• Dodson has done extensive work on researching her own family tree.
  — NBC News, 17 Sep. 2021
• But Ray, a furniture salesman, has criminals in his family tree and thieves asking him to act as their fence.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
• Their family tree doesn't include muggles — or humans without powers.
  — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2021
• Some people have a harder time researching their family tree because not all records were created equally.
  — Minnah Arshad, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2021
• Entire branches of Shakira’s family tree, from the uncles who used to tell her stories to the cousins who played with her in the caves, vanished.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• Pointing around the market, Barajas maps out his family tree, branches extending every which way.
  — Sara Tardiff, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2021
• There's as much nuance to this ever-developing story as there is to the Big Kathy's branch of the Richards family tree.
  — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2021
• Before the estate can be processed, the executor might have to construct a family tree and prove the demise or divorce of extended family members.
  — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• The story of the origin and evolution of flight is a long and complicated one, made even more tangled and complex as new research restructures the roots and branches of this family tree.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
• The research, published as three studies in the journal Innovation, suggests this is our closest relative in the human family tree.
  — Anthony Sinclair, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021
• Scaling that family tree can take a while, although Italea says initial research might range from several days to weeks, depending on the complexity of the lineage and how far back someone wants to go.
  — Catherine Sabino, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024