How to Use inherit in a Sentence

inherit

verb

• She inherited a love of baseball from her dad.
• When the coach quit, her assistant inherited a last-place team.
• Baldness is inherited from the mother's side of the family.
• She inherited her father's deep blue eyes.
• She inherited the family business from her father.
• When my brother left for college, I inherited his old computer.
• The company's new president will inherit some complicated legal problems.
• Just like humans, canines inherit one allele from each parent for a certain gene.
  — Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2022
• Gramm writes that America’s super-rich tend not to inherit their fortunes, and that’s mostly right, for now.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
• Whoever wins the election will inherit the fallout from the oil embargo.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
• Carey will inherit both of Hiller’s titles, offensive line coach and run game coordinator.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Oct. 2022
• Trump inherited his wealth from his father, a real estate developer.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
• Privilege with power But members of Congress do not just inherit wealth and advantages.
  — Ashwini Sehgal, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
• Even as the king of the Seven Kingdoms, Viserys is in no place to tell him who can inherit his family’s ancestral throne and home.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 10 Oct. 2022
• This black comedy focuses on the dysfunctional Roy family, and which of the four adult children will inherit their father's media empire.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 28 Sep. 2022
• Their name and fame are inherited; so, too, the wealth.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
• That was the thing, even if meant inheriting a 2-14 team.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2023
• As a Black woman from the South, many of her not-so-healthy habits were inherited and, for the first half of my life, passed down to me as well.
  — Deanna Taylor, Essence, 20 Mar. 2024
• It was expected at the time one of the boys might inherit the team, but that never happened.
  — Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2023
• The Cougars, who were second last week, have 23 of 32 first-place votes and inherit the top spot in the wake of a pair of losses by North Carolina.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2022
• In many states, there are laws about how much of the estate a surviving spouse must inherit.
  — Jim Farmer, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• The throne will be inherited by her younger brother, Crown Prince Haakon.
  — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
• Will our heir have to pay any taxes on the money in the Roth account when inherited?
  — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2023
• And what about the trauma that people inherit, and vow not to replicate, and do replicate?
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Nov. 2022
• The children born within its walls inherit these gifts of hatred and anger.
  — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• But what kind of world are these young people going to inherit?
  — David Boynton, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2023
• Although Anne had grown up in splendor, none of it—not the house, the land, the jewels, the antiquities—was hers to inherit.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• The couple is also expected to inherit the titles of Prince and Princess of Wales.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2023
• Our future workplaces–the ones my children and yours will inherit–rely on us to get this right.
  — Erin Grau, Fortune, 14 May 2023
• And the thing that enabled her to do this, her position of power, hadn’t been inherited; it had been earned.
  — Nell McShane Wulfhart, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024