inheritor

Example Sentences

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The most dynamic storyteller at the most interesting cocktail party could scarcely achieve more than Eve Fairbanks has achieved in “The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022

To protect her from the Inheritors, who are out to destroy all spider-beings, she is locked in a bunker, separated from her family, for a number of years.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2018

Inheritors of a protestant tradition founded on distrust of central authority, they are still conservative.

From Economist • Oct. 12, 2017

Ms Carver says his next novel, The Inheritors, was his favourite.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2014

Inheritors was first performed at the Provincetown Playhouse on April 27, 1921.

From Plays by Glaspell, Susan