inheritor

Example Sentences

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It belonged to Jean's godmother Jeanne Baudot, a friend and student of Renoir's, who passed the painting on to her inheritors.

From Barron's

They are the inheritors of a dynamic industry that Maud Williams helped to create.

From Salon

As the inheritor of a $100 million estate, that wasn’t anything she needed.

From Washington Post

“He wanted to be an artist who opened a path rather than closed it,” writes de Chassey, “a pioneer rather than an inheritor.”

From Washington Post

But if Davis was, in many ways, their inheritor, he was also staking out a territory of his own.

From Los Angeles Times