HEIR in a Sentence
Learn HEIR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
63 example sentences for HEIR, such as:
1. He was the legal heir to the throne.
2. Now he was heir and responsible for Wragby.
3. Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
4. Her duty was to produce an heir to the throne.
5. He distributed his possessions among his heirs.
2. Now he was heir and responsible for Wragby.
3. Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
4. Her duty was to produce an heir to the throne.
5. He distributed his possessions among his heirs.
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Meanings and Examples of HEIR
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heir
n. a person who inherits some title or office
n. a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1 This was the home of Henry Jekyll's favourite; of a man who was heir to a quarter of a million sterling.
2 Herbert, the elder brother and heir, laughed outright, though it was his trees that were felling for trench props.
3 Now he was heir and responsible for Wragby.
4 And he wanted Clifford to marry and produce an heir.
5 When Clifford was roused, he could still talk brilliantly and, as it were, command the future: as when, in the wood, he talked about her having a child, and giving an heir to Wragby.
6 The heir presumptive, the very William Walter Elliot, Esq.
7 Instead of pushing his fortune in the line marked out for the heir of the house of Elliot, he had purchased independence by uniting himself to a rich woman of inferior birth.
8 If I would not go for the sake of your father, I should think it scandalous to go for the sake of his heir.
9 It is well that this is so, for it is obviously of the utmost importance that Sir Charles's heir should settle at the Hall and continue the good work which has been so sadly interrupted.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
Context Highlight In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
10 He would be the heir to the estate because that is entailed.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
Context Highlight In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
11 The young heir glanced round with a gloomy face.
12 It is possible that Stapleton did not know of the existence of an heir in Canada.
13 Above all, he hated my young legitimate heir from the first with a persistent hatred.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
Context Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
14 I answer that there was a great deal which was unreasoning and fanatical in the hatred which he bore my heir.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
Context Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
15 In his view he should himself have been heir of all my estates, and he deeply resented those social laws which made it impossible.
Example Sentence:
1 The young prince is the heir to a vast estate in the west of the country.
2 The young heir's contingent of the estate was smaller than he had hoped for.
3 He was the legal heir to the throne.
4 Her duty was to produce an heir to the throne.
5 He is the eldest son and thus heir to the title.
6 He'd seen himself as the political heir of the Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel-Nasser, who had captured Arab hearts with his calls for Arab unity.
7 Looking at his great aunt's antique furniture, which must have been cluttering up her attic since the time of Noah's flood, the young heir exclaimed, "Heavens! How positively antediluvian!".
8 Granby, one of the best connected and most estimable residents in S-, grandson and heir to Sir Frederic Granby: I had the intelligence from her father yesterday.
9 Natasha's claim to be the lost heir of the Romanoffs was spurious: the only thing Russian about her was the vodka she drank!.
10 He distributed his possessions among his heirs.
11 The socialists saw themselves as true heirs of the Enlightenment.
12 Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
13 The sons, heirs to the Theban throne, quarrel over who will assume the kingship and they slay each other.