LINEAGE in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for LINEAGE, such as:

1. So they came up one after the other, and each one as I questioned her told me her race and lineage.
2. Some few of gods' lineage have availed, such as Jupiter's gracious favour or virtue's ardour hath upborne to heaven.
3. Amyfw, while everything you state about Jewish law and lineage is correct, George Allen would not be considered a Jew.
4. When they entered, they found themselves in the presence of about twenty matrons and maidens of distinguished Saxon lineage.

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 Meanings and Examples of LINEAGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lineage
 n.  direct descent from a particular ancestor; ancestry
Classic Sentence:
1  So saying, he arose and left the banqueting room, followed by Athelstane, and by several other guests, who, partaking of the Saxon lineage, held themselves insulted by the sarcasms of Prince John and his courtiers.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  When they entered, they found themselves in the presence of about twenty matrons and maidens of distinguished Saxon lineage.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
3  The stranger must first show," said Malvoisin, "that he is good knight, and of honourable lineage.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
4  My name," said the Knight, raising his helmet, "is better known, my lineage more pure, Malvoisin, than thine own.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
5  Menelaus then greeted them saying, "Fall to, and welcome; when you have done supper I shall ask who you are, for the lineage of such men as you cannot have been lost."
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IV
6  So they came up one after the other, and each one as I questioned her told me her race and lineage.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XI
7  On the wall hung a row of portraits, representing the forefathers of the Bellingham lineage, some with armour on their breasts, and others with stately ruffs and robes of peace.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
8  As she was also so white as not to be known as of colored lineage, without a critical survey, and her child was white also, it was much easier for her to pass on unsuspected.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  The glories of Mary held his soul captive: spikenard and myrrh and frankincense, symbolizing her royal lineage, her emblems, the late-flowering plant and late-blossoming tree, symbolizing the age-long gradual growth of her cultus among men.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  In short, Nozdrev's whole lineage was passed in review; and many of its members in the ascending line fared badly in the process.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
11  Some few of gods' lineage have availed, such as Jupiter's gracious favour or virtue's ardour hath upborne to heaven.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
12  Neither could I wonder at all this, when I saw such an interruption of lineages, by pages, lackeys, valets, coachmen, gamesters, fiddlers, players, captains, and pickpockets.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII.
Example Sentence:
1  Some of its inventions have been ludicrous: like an app that sold coins to use at laundromats; but others are world-beaters: microprocessor and smartphones all trace their lineage to the valley.
2  The finding, published in Nature today, pushes back the known origins of the equine lineage by about 2 million years, and yields a variety of evolutionary insights.
3  Amyfw, while everything you state about Jewish law and lineage is correct, George Allen would not be considered a Jew.