bloodline
Example Sentences
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Whether Baffert has another Derby winner in Plutarch won’t be known for 12 weeks, but the colt certainly has the bloodlines.
From Los Angeles Times
It was not a bloodline trust, but I was told it was still being finalized.
From MarketWatch
But poverty also ran in the bloodline, Ackmann explains, with Parton growing up “dirt poor” in a log cabin without running water or electricity.
From Los Angeles Times
A second deputy was found in Yaqoob Mujahid, Taliban founder Mullah Omar's son – young, but bringing with him his Taliban bloodline, and its potential to unify the movement.
From BBC
I delivered a speech arguing that the U.S. is a nation defined above all by ideals, not shared bloodlines.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.