How to Use hereditary in a Sentence

hereditary

adjective

• He suffers from a rare hereditary condition.
• Japan is believed to have the oldest hereditary monarchy in the world.
  — Time, 22 Oct. 2019
• But his father, René, was working as a mountain guide (the profession is hereditary here).
  — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2019
• There are on-going studies looking into genetic and hereditary links to the disease.
  — Robin Goist, cleveland, 8 Nov. 2019
• The first is a one-time test for nine hereditary conditions, including breast and colon cancer, heart disease, and blood disorders.
  — Wired, 15 Oct. 2019
• Brain aneurysms are hereditary and more common among black and hispanic women than other demographic groups.
  — NBC News, 11 Mar. 2020
• While sarcoidosis sometimes runs in families, it is not considered a hereditary disease.
  — Mayo Clinic News Network, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2019
• Naruhito leads the world's oldest hereditary monarchy, which historians say goes back 1,500 years.
  — NBC News, 22 Oct. 2019
• In the north, Molossia and Macedonia retained hereditary monarchies.
  — National Geographic, 3 Dec. 2019
• Although the cause of lipomas is unknown, this condition is hereditary (e.g. members of the same family have a higher chance of developing it).
  — Donna Murray, Rn, Parents, 29 July 2024
• While a tentative deal was recently reached between the hereditary chiefs and the Canadian government, the deal must still be approved by the Wet’suwet’en people.
  — Adam Kovac, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2020
• The main source of resistance to the project is a number of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs.
  — Kevin Orland, Bloomberg.com, 9 May 2020
• Heinrich may claim the hereditary title, but the House of Reuss is less than pleased with him.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2022
• So the king of Prussia, a king of Bavaria, hereditary princes in an area of east-central Germany.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
• The hereditary form of the disease stems from mutations to the TTR gene, which produces the protein transthyretin.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
• Japan is ruled by the longest-running hereditary dynasty in the world.
  — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2021
• Her father is the hereditary chief of their First Nation.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2022
• The house of Lords ceased to be hereditary in 1999, but even now it’s just merely appointed by the two main parties.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2021
• Though the hereditary aspect is out of our control, many of the lifestyle aspects aren’t.
  — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• The Chrysanthemum Throne is the oldest hereditary monarchy in the world.
  — CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
• And it’s like a hereditary disease that’s passed on from one generation to the next.
  — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2022
• Only 15% of cases are hereditary; the causes of the rest are unknown.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2023
• Just 3% to 5% of these cancers are caused by hereditary factors.
  — Markham Heid, Time, 13 Dec. 2022
• The illness is hereditary and may not emerge until a patient’s 40s.
  — Elizabeth Anne Brown, New York Times, 15 May 2023
• The first to recognize that CF was a hereditary disease...
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 4 Nov. 2021
• Sullivan, who serves as hereditary chief for the O'Sullivan clan.
  — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 24 July 2022
• But words are open to interpretation, and while the Crown may be hereditary, a monarch’s sense of duty is not.
  — Holly Thomas, CNN, 13 Sep. 2022
• Sung was among the first to understand the roles of BRCA1 and 2, which are hereditary genes that suppress breast and ovarian cancers.
  — Laura Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Sep. 2022
• Until 1999, every one of Britain’s hereditary peers was also entitled to sit in the House of Lords.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2020
• Heart murmurs themselves are not hereditary, but some of the conditions that cause heart murmurs can be—such as aortic and pulmonary valve stenosis.
  — Alexandria Jones-Patten, Phd, Health, 27 July 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024