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family line

NOUN
  1. people descended from a common ancestor
    his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower

How To Use family line In A Sentence

  • A funeral shroud depicting a network of ancestor figures would join the dead with their family lineage, amongst whom they would continue to oversee and often intervene in the affairs of the living.
  • Ms King said the skills are passed through the family line but not necessarily from mother to daughter.
  • The first hypothesis was that the disease was genetic and was passed on in family lines from generation to generation. Cultural Anthropology
  • Therefore at that time, women had the right of succession in the family lineage and they probably had the same rights in the inheritance of property also.
  • Tree-dwelling squirrels have lovely bushy tails, and we realised that the little ones, from the look of them, were also from one such splendid family line.
  • Mrs Clarke herself lives in Winchester and is keeping the family line going with a daughter and three grandchildren.
  • These chants often tell of genealogies (family lines) or the exploits of ancestors.
  • Then everyone left in your family line will come and bow down before him for a piece of silver and a crust of bread and plead, "Appoint me to some priestly office so I can have food to eat.
  • The importance of continuing the family line is eroding as China modernizes," says Hung Huang, a Beijing publisher who adopted a girl last year.
  • A woman of such Junoesque proportions would surely complement the family line. The Seduction Of Sara
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