Example Sentences

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Widow’s Bay’s founders damned themselves and all their descendants by burying their iniquity instead of living with it long enough to dispel it and learn from that mistake.

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2026

Our ancestors whose attention drifted past the rustle in the grass left fewer descendants than those who froze, looked and listened.

From Science Daily • Jun. 16, 2026

Even 2001’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” eventually reveals itself as a kind of inverted first-contact story, with humanity becoming the vanished civilization studied by synthetic descendants of the machines.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Today, the area reflects the resources and talents of “Old Fish,” the immigrants and their descendants who built the community, and “New Fish,” the arrivals who have transformed the place.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

And at last they learned how these nobly born Siamese acquired the kink at the end of their tails and bequeathed it to all their descendants.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford