How to Use family tree in a Sentence

family tree

noun
Definition of family treenext
Synonyms for family treenext
  • Such a fate should have been enough to make Gannibal the star of his family tree.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
  • On the other side are 19 cousins from among the Cardin family tree who want to sell the company.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2023
  • That one branch of her family tree had been in Mexico since the 1700s.
    — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Those points are then used to build a family tree for each person.
    — Dan Springer, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Royal family tree:Who will ascend to the throne after the queen's death?
    — USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
  • To do this, though, the banana family tree must be clearer.
    — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
  • But their prior lives in Italy were nothing more to me than the names of towns and ancestors on a family tree.
    — David Botti, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • But Norton certainly isn’t a one-man branch in the family tree.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Natalie Diggs rebound the book and spent the next two decades using the Bible’s notes as a guide to build her family tree.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
  • Inside the home, a white marker board hangs on a living room wall, bearing the branches of the family tree.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Are all of our family trees already up for grabs now somewhere?
    — WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
  • At a glass patio table overlooking the bay, Packard shows you one of his plot charts: a graph that looks like a family tree.
    — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
  • But while Archaeopteryx is also from the Paraves group, some doubt where Archaeopteryx fits in the family tree.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2022
  • Though Phillippe is not a descendant of Queen Victoria, the two do still share a family tree.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 23 May 2022
  • Then take time to trace your dad's family tree to get a deeper look at your family's past and present.
    — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Red pandas are the sole survivors of this mammalian family tree.
    — Fox News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • And like her mother, Leanna McGee, 39, has taken up the mantle as holder of the family tree.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
  • That's exactly the kind of last-minute errand that happens around a family tree.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Tracing the branches of the family tree isn’t Fredriksson’s concern.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 June 2023
  • The name is German in origin, his family tree filled with farmers.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Who is the youngest Kardashian?:A detailed look at the Kardashian-Jenner family tree.
    — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Turns out, the ring puzzle has several cousins in the puzzle family tree.
    — A.j. Jacobs, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Think of it as a family tree for the virus, which is grouped into different lineages, like branches on a tree.
    — The Conversation, Fortune Well, 12 Sep. 2023
  • So what's the breakdown of Caitlyn Jenner's family tree?
    — Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2022
  • By my count, the Reuters team would have had to scrutinize the family trees of nearly 600 people to reach its conclusions.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • For more than a decade, Yamona Pierce was on a genealogical search for the names of relatives to fill out her family tree.
    — Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2022
  • And alumni of his classes make up a far-reaching, still-growing family tree.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Birds evolved from small and feathery raptor-like creatures forming a branch on the dinosaur family tree.
    — Evan Hecht, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2022
  • His characters have Willy Loman and John Proctor in their family tree.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
  • But experts were uncertain about where exactly Pikaia belonged on the chordate family tree.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 24 June 2024

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