How to Use scion in a Sentence

scion

noun

• He's a scion of a powerful family.
• Barbara, the missing girl, is a scion of the big house.
  — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024
• But the law finally caught up with the Malaysian scion.
  — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• The global 1 percent, and their spoiled scions like Vanya, don’t live like that.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Yet, there was friction between the racing scion and many inside F1.
  — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 25 Nov. 2024
• 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
• The 49-year-old scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has been the main face of the party for more than five years and been outflanked by Mr. Modi two elections in a row.
  — Eric Bellman, WSJ, 3 July 2019
• 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
• Many observers believed that Hamza, the young, millennial scion of the group’s founder, could be the answer to al-Qaeda’s prayers.
  — Jennifer Williams, Vox, 1 Aug. 2019
• Duhamel looks much too old to play naive young steel-industry scion Sheldon Sampson in the flashbacks.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2021
• William Bruce Harrison, the scion to an oil fortune, now owns 19 mountains in Colorado.
  — Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 22 June 2019
• 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
• In adulthood, the scion started to embrace his father's legacy.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025