descendant

Example Sentences

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He has recently constructed "a memorial for the descendants of Africans, the diaspora... whom we have told for a long time that history began with slavery, with colonisation".

From Barron's

Ferrer, who has been living in exile in Miami since last October, welcomes any negotiations between the Cuban government and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio -- himself a descendant of Cuban immigrants.

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The land was donated to the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles in the 1950s by descendants of one of the city’s early oil barons.

From Los Angeles Times

A nation demographically dominated by the descendants of immigrants from every corner of the world is one of the most linguistically homogenous on earth.

From Salon

The association has campaigned on behalf of the descendants of Franco's victims for decades, with its work including the exhumation of mass graves.

From Barron's