How to Use scion in a Sentence

scion

noun
  • He's a scion of a powerful family.
  • But the law finally caught up with the Malaysian scion.
    Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Select and store healthy scion wood for grafting fruit and nut trees.
    oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Pruning out the suckers will not harm either the rootstock or the scion.
    Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Branches from the rootstock may have a different type of leaf than the branches from the scion.
    oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Due to the graft between the rootstock (in the soil), and the scion plant (above the graft), that area is susceptible to cold injury.
    oregonlive, 23 Nov. 2019
  • One is a grandee of Wall Street dealmaking, the other a scion of Goldman Sachs.
    Sonali Basak, Bloomberg.com, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Since then, as is common for corporate scions, he has been fast-tracked up the ranks.
    Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Williams and the McCartney scion also share a love of music.
    Rhonda Richford, WWD, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The train has backing from Mexican scion Carlos Slim, one of the richest people in the world.
    Levi Bridges, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2022
  • In the war between two scions of the long-reigning Targaryen clan, there are no winners, least of all the realm each contender hopes to rule.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 14 June 2024
  • Season two will see a new case, about the murder of the scion of a powerful oil family.
    Town & Country, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The Samsung scion still faces his own legal issues, in a courtroom back and forth that has kept his name and the name of his empire in the headlines.
    New York Times, 6 May 2020
  • Indeed, Rosalind may be a scion of the haute bourgeoisie, but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been pain and suffering in her life.
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Dune is the story of Paul Atreides, the scion of a space dynasty whose destiny is to become a savior known as the Kwisatz Haderach.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Through a spokesman, Adar Poonawalla, the scion of the family, declined to comment.
    New York Times, 27 July 2021
  • Murdaugh, 54, is the scion of a legal dynasty in the state’s Lowcountry region.
    Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2022
  • For the first two years, the roots, stems and scion are typically grown separately.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The brash real estate scion is among the many high-profile bidders for a casino complex in New York City.
    Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The rootstock is chosen for its disease resistance and the scion or above-ground part of the plant is chosen for its foliage and fruit.
    oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Like Paul Atreides, Feyd-Rautha is a talented and charismatic young scion of a great house.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Duhamel looks much too old to play naive young steel-industry scion Sheldon Sampson in the flashbacks.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2021
  • The jab was clear: Mr. Markey, a truck driver’s son, was drawing a contrast with the scion of a political dynasty.
    New York Times, 9 Oct. 2021
  • And on Thursday, the Manning family scion revealed his new path.
    Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 23 June 2022
  • As a scion of a family of winners, in a town defined by ssireum, no one can explain his failure.
    Geoffrey Bunting, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The hundreds of varieties of scion wood came from local orchards.
    oregonlive, 14 Dec. 2020
  • As a graffiti artist, Donnelly, the scion of a middle-class family, was no up-from-the-streets wild child.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Growers bud two or three scions of a rose cultivar onto the tree trunk to create a bushy, full flowering head on top of the tree.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The legislation means the scions in the 2026 freshman classes at Stanford and USC are likely to be noticeably fewer and farther between.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024
  • After barely two years of ownership, the scion of a Hollywood actor has decided to part ways with his home in an unincorporated area near the city of Glendale.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2024

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