HEREDITARY in a Sentence
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20 example sentences for HEREDITARY, such as:
1. An assembly of hereditary nobility.
2. Americans have mixed feelings about hereditary aristocracy.
3. But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind.
4. Yes, but you said yourself that a severe chill was not hereditary.
5. That cultural tendencies linger in hereditary religious traditions.
2. Americans have mixed feelings about hereditary aristocracy.
3. But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind.
4. Yes, but you said yourself that a severe chill was not hereditary.
5. That cultural tendencies linger in hereditary religious traditions.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of HEREDITARY
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hereditary
a. occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
a. inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 Lily's preference would have been for an English nobleman with political ambitions and vast estates; or, for second choice, an Italian prince with a castle in the Apennines and an hereditary office in the Vatican.
2 Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe.
3 In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.
4 Nor, in some things, does the common, hereditary experience of all mankind fail to bear witness to the supernaturalism of this hue.
5 But from the same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.
6 The Indians, who believe in the hereditary transmission of virtues and defects in character, suffered him to depart in silence.
7 To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia.
8 It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the affair.
9 But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
Context Highlight In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
10 A single hereditary person, having the constant, supreme, executive power, and with it the power of convoking and dissolving the other two within certain periods of time.
11 An assembly of hereditary nobility.
12 Principalities are either hereditary, in which the family has been long established; or they are new.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In CHAPTER I — HOW MANY KINDS OF PRINCIPALITIES THERE ARE, A...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER I — HOW MANY KINDS OF PRINCIPALITIES THERE ARE, A...
13 The serf wore the customary garb of serving-men at that period, and long before, in the old hereditary halls of England.
14 Had they followed their hereditary taste, the New England settlers would have illustrated all events of public importance by bonfires, banquets, pageantries, and processions.
15 Yes, but you said yourself that a severe chill was not hereditary.
Example Sentence:
1 Britain's House of Lords has been described as the best club in London and for many of the hereditary members who rarely attend debates, that's just what it is.
2 That cultural tendencies linger in hereditary religious traditions.
3 Americans have mixed feelings about hereditary aristocracy.
4 Genetic engineers transpose or exchange bits of hereditary material from one organism to the next.