How to Use family tree in a Sentence

family tree

noun
Definition of family treenext
Synonyms for family treenext
  • A framed family tree hung on the wall.
  • Two years after Tom hung up the green and gold, the next branch of the family tree has taken root.
    — Alex Murphy, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The latest variant, omicron, came out of nowhere on the family tree of the virus.
    — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • So break out the family tree and prepare to go digging.
    — Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The Hulk family tree is truly something out of a soap opera.
    — Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2024
  • 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
  • Wood described the family tree that Moore's firm built for him as overwhelming.
    — Jon Brown, Fox News, 12 Mar. 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
  • Chalk down one of those as Genghis Khan’s, and that leaves ten other men who initiated long-lived and widely spread family trees.
    — Laura Clark, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2024

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