descendants

IPA: dɪsˈɛndʌnts

Examples of "descendants" in Sentences

What we can do for our descendants is promote, or at least avoid retarding, economic growth.
At least the phony, bait & switch concern for starving artists and their descendants is well grounded in history.
Even so, I choose to spend my food money so that my long-term health, and that of my descendants, is not compromised.
Darwin descendants are still there (through the Keynes), and the institute still supports the notorious Pioneer Fund directly.
The first white man to see Lake Victoria, John Hanning Speke, claimed the two tribes in the Rwanda region were direct descendants from the Bible.
Linguistic evidence that these diverse communities intermingled to some extent with these PNECB descendants is found in their modern language descendants 'lexis. 10
But to imagine that such a thing enters the heads of a great and growing majority of immigrants and their descendants is a ludicrous misconception, and a dangerous one to boot.
A characteristic that occurs only in later descendants is called an apomorphy (meaning "separate form" or "far from form," as in far from the root ancestor; also called a "derived" state) for that group.
One of the descendants is an investment counselor and another a Ph.D. Mrs. [Megan] Smolenyak Smolenyak described them as “poster children” for immigrant America, with Irish, Jewish, Italian and Scandinavian surnames.