passed down
Example Sentences
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That’s money which is not only never received, but never available to be spent, saved or passed down.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 26, 2026
"This made it clear that their longer healthspan was passed down to subsequent generations," he says.
From Science Daily • Jun. 21, 2026
“The Last Human Bear” is about the inescapability of inheritance, and it is only in delivering her sprawling confessions that Mary begins to accept the powers passed down to her.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
The aim of a scheduled monument is to preserve significant sites in Scotland as much as possible in the form they have been passed down to people today.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
It was a lesson she’d forgotten in her early days in America, but with time she had rediscovered it as something worthy passed down from her grandmother in Kure.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
