How to Use progeny in a Sentence

progeny

noun

• The small plants are the progeny of an oak tree.
• Their work is the progeny of many earlier studies.
• Many Americans are the progeny of immigrants.
• If the lunch counter is the heir to the table, then the chair is the progeny of the stool.
  — Bernice L. McFadden, Longreads, 7 Aug. 2021
• To be the progeny of the cool mom is both a blessing and a curse.
  — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 19 Oct. 2017
• The progeny of two baseball Hall of Famers had notable games on the same night.
  — Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2019
• But the dude is looking top form and can pull off his own screen progeny.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 28 June 2018
• Many of the chestnuts growing in the progeny test now reach high above Mr. French’s head.
  — Elena Shao Maddie McGarvey, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
• Their orphan progeny return to the ground and live the next 17 or 13 years in darkness.
  — Vox Staff, Vox, 6 May 2024
• French, French and French—the tied-with-a-bow's look progeny most certainly lives in Paris.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Nov. 2013
• And yet, that’s exactly the fate the plant doesn’t want to befall its progeny.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2022
• The book is more than the story of Julian Van Winkle and his progeny.
  — Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 1 May 2021
• Like most of our other players, the pursuit of the throne doesn’t end well for her or many of her progeny.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 17 June 2024
• And that, in turn, means the organism (and its progeny) are now resistant to the drive.
  — The Economist, 22 July 2017
• The progeny of the 2020 swarms continue to cause damage across East Africa.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
• That part of you will still fold laundry and bake meatloaf long past the age that any progeny will need or want it.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Oct. 2021
• And the leopon, the progeny of a lion and a leopard—not to be outdone by the jagulep, a jaguar-leopard mix.
  — Ilnar Salakhiev, National Geographic, 24 Feb. 2017
• Indigo and onion progeny are tiny, about the size of a pinhead.
  — Latria Graham, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
• But this cell also has a quirk: Many of its progeny are misshapen.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 29 Mar. 2021
• The gorgeous bride was the oldest of three beautiful girls, the progeny of my daughter’s friend of over 50 years.
  — Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
• In most cases, such slaves were the mixed-race progeny of their current or past owners.
  — NBC News, 9 July 2019
• Maybe Granny wants a break from her thoughtless progeny.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
• By my lights, Roe and its progeny have been very bad for America.
  — O. Carter Snead, CNN, 24 June 2022
• The Rusty Lake games are puzzle adventures that feel like it was made by the progeny of Edward Gorey.
  — Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2020
• That’s just a smattering of the big league progeny floating around the majors.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 14 June 2019
• In the first place, being a parent involves the desire to pass your values to your progeny.
  — John Rosemond, charlotteobserver, 26 Apr. 2017
• Polo brings him up to the control booth, swaddling his progeny’s dome in a pair of headphones.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2021
• The goal is to have all bass used to produce fry and fingerlings for stocking across the state be progeny of ShareLunker fish.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2018
• There’s no question Coach Prime’s progeny has the talent though.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
• Twenty-five children had traveled from a village near Kharkov with four mothers, protectors of a villages’ progeny, its future.
  — Susan Mathison, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024