line of descent
Example Sentences
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They were generally non-elite because they could not trace their genealogy in a line of descent from Shirazi Muslims.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
The female line of descent was therefore crucial to proving that one was a free person.
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2020
A number of Capote’s reported works were methodologically in the line of descent from “Hiroshima,” culminating with “In Cold Blood,” which The New Yorker excerpted at great length in 1965.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019
There’s no mistaking the line of descent: U2 to Coldplay to Snow Patrol, which has re-emerged with its first song in seven years.
From New York Times • May 11, 2018
Masters of power politics, engineers of genius, the Mexica were also upstarts and pretenders, arrivistes who falsely claimed a brilliant line of descent.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
