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Sentence count:161+5Posted:2016-07-21Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: descendantSimilar words: restoreinvestorstorypastorhistorystoragehistoricrest onMeaning: ['ænsestə]  n. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent). 
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(31) There had been twelve of the chairs originally, made in 1750 for an ancestor of ours in Jamestown.
(32) The sacred, the past, ancestor worship seem to be the chosen grounds in most cases.
(33) Amongst the term's more specialized medieval uses, however, is a sense that it shares with its Latin ancestor fabula.
(34) The nearest common ancestor of man and the modern great apes died out about 30 million years ago.
(35) The red jungle fowl is the ancestor of the domestic chicken.
(36) Naturally the baobab is revered as the ancestor among trees.
(37) Genesis 36 reminds its readers that Esau was the ancestor of the Edomites.
(38) It is the direct ancestor of the organization Daley inherited.
(39) This form developed bipedalism and other adaptations to the newly opening arid savannah landscape and eventually became the ancestor of man.
(40) There is no clearer case of ancestor worship in the Western world.
(41) Then, widening our focus, we looked at Lugbara witchcraft and the ancestor cult which complements and completes it.
(42) His ancestor had been Gia Long, the emperor whose cause had been helped by Pigneau de Behaine.
(43) How, he asked, could this be-unless each had diverged from the same ancestor?
(44) The chances of survival for any ancestor are small indeed.
(45) What is the chance that this particular mutant will be the ancestor of all the genes in the later population?
(46) As descent always involves modification, resemblance decreases as a shared ancestor recedes into the past.
(47) When he jokingly referred to the story that he was descended from the Devil he meant no disrespect to his ancestor Woden.
(48) Lineages of descent from a female ancestor are thus prime substructures composing a macaque troop.
(49) Each is derived, no doubt,[http://sentencedict.com/ancestor.html] from some ancient shared ancestor.
(50) I even had a picture of the evolutionary sequence of bodies leading up to my insects by slow degrees from a dot ancestor.
(51) This is the object-oriented concept of inheritance, that is, characteristics received from an ancestor in a class hierarchy.
(52) Monkeys and apes are so similar that it is reasonable to say they have a common ancestor.
(53) It was favourably received and I felt that I had done my hitherto neglected ancestor proud.
(54) He had no human ancestor and he was himself only half human.
(55) Such as nature worship and ancestor worship relationship.
(56) Is Metasequoia ancestor of Sequoia sempervirens?
(57) According to the linguistic family tree theory, which is commonly used in Altaistic, all modern Altaic languages have developed after their division from the Altaic ancestor language.
(58) A wild pig (Sus scrofa) of Eurasia and northern Africa, having dark dense bristles. It is the ancestor of the domestic hog.
(59) The liberty which we are supposing may be most completely given to them in the form of such a power as is said to have been possessed by Gyges the ancestor of Croesus the Lydian.
(60) For example, the Banpo people cultivate millet , is from the north common ancestor Setaria nurture formed.
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