How to Use inheritance in a Sentence

inheritance

noun

• The buildings are part of the city's architectural inheritance.
• She began her own business with the inheritance she got from her grandfather.
• He left sizable inheritances to his children.
• The inheritance and the title go to the firstborn son, and the daughters are married off for profit and not for love.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022
• They were told a copy of the inheritance agreement was kept in storage away from Seoul and would take weeks to retrieve.
  — Victoria Kim, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• How the inmate chooses to handle the inheritance is between him and the BOP.
  — Dallas News, 3 July 2022
• This spouse wants to keep an inheritance secret from the other spouse.
  — Liz Weston, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2023
• Prior to inheritance changes, Graceland was opened to the public for tours in 1982.
  — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 21 Mar. 2023
• Frank withdrew his modest inheritance and bought a house in the small Catskills town of Woodstock.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 28 Aug. 2021
• Call it hopeful naïveté, call it instinct or call it a kind of inheritance, but the two young actors, then just 19 and 20, were right.
  — Cat Cardenas, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• With a trust, a landowner could pass an inheritance to a wife and younger children as well as preclude any payments to the lord.
  — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2021
• But in this case the inheritance is not about the country house or the Old Master but about a philanthropic heritage.
  — Benjamin Soskis, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2022
• Liam Payne left his kin with a big inheritance before his death.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 21 Oct. 2024
• Of course, any money the inheritance earns would be taxable.
  — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2023
• That means not depositing the inheritance in a joint account and not using the money to pay joint bills or a joint debt.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024
• That’s the deal Solange cuts them: accommodate her in their house through the final phase of her life, and her hefty inheritance will be theirs.
  — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
• The goal of leaving an inheritance is laudable—full stop.
  — Tim Maurer, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• This is to be Carrie’s sole inheritance, apart from the key to a room at her father’s home that contains one model of the device.
  — Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2024
• The girls' inheritance is a beloved but ramshackle inn located in the (very white) back of beyond in rural Maine.
  — Carole V. Bell, NPR, 5 Mar. 2024
• Crooks want to get their grimy hands on inheritance money.
  — Kim Komando, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2024
• No expense is spared, as Daou describes it, for the brand that represents the inheritance—the legacy—implied in the name.
  — Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 20 Sep. 2021
• Yet the public has little chance of learning how much that inheritance will be.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022
• Abby then takes matters into her own hands to get rid of the threat to their inheritance money.
  — Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024
• But my father thought I might be hoodwinked out of my inheritance.
  — Pat Kapowich, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2024
• Mars used the inheritance to raise purebred Hereford cattle and to buy a stockyard.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
• While William, the Prince of Wales, is no stranger to the public eye, the conversation of his throne inheritance thrusts him even further into the spotlight.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
• Rates depend on the size of your inheritance, state tax laws and your relationship with the deceased.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
• This inheritance will belong to your wife and her siblings.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
• Scripted by Rubin, Mulligans tells the story of a wealthy Florida family who rip each other apart while competing in a golf tournament to win the family golf course and inheritance.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
• Tension may also be felt around financing a project — or perhaps other difficulties around large money matters, like an inheritance or assets and investments.
  — Kyle Thomas, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025