INHERITANCE in a Sentence

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1. He inherited a big fortune from his.
2. The title passes by inheritance to the eldest son.
3. Jackson's estate is also subject to federal inheritance taxes.
4. Physical characteristics are determined by genetic inheritance.
5. This treatment may be the way forward for many inherited disorders.

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 Meanings and Examples of INHERITANCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inheritance
 n.  any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors
Classic Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
1  And the stores and warehouses along the railroad track near the depot, which were part of her inheritance, had tripled in value since the war began.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom He loved.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
3  The chief of these was the question of inheritance: Mrs. Cutter told her husband it was plainly his fault they had no children.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
4  His habitual scepticism was like a direct inheritance from that old woman.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
5  Safe under the protecting care of her mistress, Eliza had reached maturity without those temptations which make beauty so fatal an inheritance to a slave.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  Athelstane, it is true, was vain enough, and loved to have his ears tickled with tales of his high descent, and of his right by inheritance to homage and sovereignty.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  But nature or inheritance had implanted a good sturdy spirit in Oliver's breast.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  "Well, I seem to have come into an inheritance with a vengeance," said he when the long narrative was finished.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
9  But Godfrey was the heir to this crabbed old nobleman, and it was quite certain that the news of his marriage would have been the end of his inheritance.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
10  When I saw them I ceased abruptly to trouble about the Morlocks, and was only concerned in banishing these signs of the human inheritance from Weena's eyes.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
11  To families divided by questions of money and inheritance he said: "Look at the mountaineers of Devolny, a country so wild that the nightingale is not heard there once in fifty years."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP
12  His dream was to come into an inheritance and to have a hundred thousand livres income for mistresses.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH
13  The inheritance of Father Gillenormand did not amount to much; but the inheritance of Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder was considerable.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
14  Theodule, on his side, though he scented the inheritance, was disgusted at the task of pleasing.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
15  I was sensible that I could look for no support from a man disappointed in his hopes of an inheritance.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 57 MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  He accused his younger brother of trying to steal his rightful inheritance.
2  Lucinda has to fight for her life and her inheritance in this gripping novel.
3  Physical characteristics are determined by genetic inheritance.
4  The title passes by inheritance to the eldest son.
5  Jackson's estate is also subject to federal inheritance taxes.
6  His neighbors denounced him as a wastrel who had dissipated his inheritance.
7  It says that members of the royal family should have to pay inheritance tax and the Queen's role in the annual state opening of parliament should be changed.
8  It is the general rule, that all superior men inherit the elements ofsuperiority from their mother.
9  In the normal course of events, a son would inherit from his father.
10  To be an American today, we must examine the values that we inherit from the pioneers, and how they relate to the future of our nation in the world.
11  This treatment may be the way forward for many inherited disorders.
12  She arrived at college with a whole set of assumptions inherited from her family.
13  He inherited a big fortune from his.
14  Some people claim that an individual's degree of extroversion or introversion is inherited.
15  We will enter into the question of inherited characteristics at a future time.