How to Use family history in a Sentence

family history

noun
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  • As the soup starts to boil, so does the family history.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
  • That was enough for Tamenne—the rumors, the obscure family history, even some of the bizarre titles.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The hope is that their piece of family history will ultimately find a home on the grounds of the Texas Capitol.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Apr. 2024
  • There's a lot of star power and rich family history there, but Jamie made a name for herself in her own right.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 9 Mar. 2023
  • This is a road trip in the purest and most literal sense, the telling spare in an odyssey of self, family history and small-town America.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2023
  • Some of the risk factors for heart disease are out of your control, like your family history.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Walk in, and the owner is probably gonna know your name, your order and your family history.
    — Haley Laurence | Hlaurence@al.com, al, 20 July 2023
  • For Hunter, the seed for the book was planted with a high school English assignment about family history.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2024
  • The adventure takes a turn when the pair’s old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Many times, there is a family history in which a father, or grandfather owned one.
    — David Krumboltz, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Meanwhile, doctors were studying the family history of the second patient, Haris, to try to draw a link between the cases.
    — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple’s old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 18 June 2024
  • Yet that sort of farming marked only a brief moment in Wood’s family history.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • But Ibiza also has a special place in his family history.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 3 July 2023
  • But what the researchers thought was a new species has a complicated family history.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Shulman put Smolenyak in touch with his sister, who’d learned many details of their family history from their mother.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The family history of others stretches even further back, to before the civil war.
    — Eric Cheung, CNN, 1 June 2023
  • But he should be made aware of the family history and negative consequences.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The descendants of Robert Berry and his son expressed pride that their family history is embedded in the alleys and streets of Sacramento.
    — Graham Womack, Sacramento Bee, 20 July 2024
  • The team asks about home life, family history of obesity, and are screened for health conditions linked to obesity.
    — Marina Kopf, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • He’s got a pitch in mind, too: Jamaica Road, a romance inspired by his own family history during Britain’s Windrush era.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023
  • And now, after Gates noticed an uptick in Finding Your Roots fans' desire to see themselves on the program, the chance to retrace one's family history isn't just for celebrities.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The same is true for a person's cultural background and family history.
    — Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Most women with breast cancer don’t have a family history of it, according to the Komen foundation.
    — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Pickett also built her novel around the family history of a missionary from Cache Valley, Utah, where the novel is set.
    — Jackie Hoermann, Kansas City Star, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The same can be true of cases where people have also been diagnosed with allergies and asthma or have a family history of eczema.
    — Karen Pallarito, Health, 9 Nov. 2023
  • This might very well be related to a move, or to your evolving understanding of your family history.
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2024
  • His mother eggs him to confront their own family history.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Often, people who have a family history of NF will have a genetic test even before symptoms develop.
    — Brigid Dwyer, Verywell Health, 20 July 2024
  • Beyond this focus on his own family history, he’s contemplated his identity in other ways.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2024

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