How to Use hereditary in a Sentence

hereditary

adjective
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  • He suffers from a rare hereditary condition.
  • Heinrich may claim the hereditary title, but the House of Reuss is less than pleased with him.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • So the king of Prussia, a king of Bavaria, hereditary princes in an area of east-central Germany.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The hereditary form of the disease stems from mutations to the TTR gene, which produces the protein transthyretin.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Japan is ruled by the longest-running hereditary dynasty in the world.
    — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Her father is the hereditary chief of their First Nation.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The Chrysanthemum Throne is the oldest hereditary monarchy in the world.
    — CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
  • And it’s like a hereditary disease that’s passed on from one generation to the next.
    — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Only 15% of cases are hereditary; the causes of the rest are unknown.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Just 3% to 5% of these cancers are caused by hereditary factors.
    — Markham Heid, Time, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The illness is hereditary and may not emerge until a patient’s 40s.
    — Elizabeth Anne Brown, New York Times, 15 May 2023
  • The first to recognize that CF was a hereditary disease...
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Sullivan, who serves as hereditary chief for the O'Sullivan clan.
    — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 24 July 2022
  • But words are open to interpretation, and while the Crown may be hereditary, a monarch’s sense of duty is not.
    — Holly Thomas, CNN, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Sung was among the first to understand the roles of BRCA1 and 2, which are hereditary genes that suppress breast and ovarian cancers.
    — Laura Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Sep. 2022
  • In this third decade of the twenty-first century, the idea of a hereditary monarch serving as the head of a large democratic state seems like an anachronism.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The boy is one of six children with a type of hereditary deafness who are part of a gene therapy trial in China.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024
  • By the mid-aughts, researchers were still starting to identify and sort out the many varieties of FTD: Which were hereditary?
    — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 20 July 2023
  • Charles looked more like a U.S. president on the campaign trail than the latest steward of a 1,000-year-old hereditary monarchy.
    — Danica Kirka, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
  • In the eternal debate of whether or not talent is hereditary, the Matisse family makes a good case.
    — Olivia Hosken, Town & Country, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Though chimera cats are rare, chimerism can be hereditary, according to Healthline.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 29 Oct. 2021
  • There is the hatred of son toward father, the desire to protect his mom and his frustration that these demons are hereditary.
    — Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • To many, the notion sounded crazy; behavior was far too complex to be hereditary.
    — New York Times, 6 July 2022
  • Normally, this homage would be performed by hereditary dukes and earls.
    — Maria Mercedes Lara, Peoplemag, 6 May 2023
  • But the Vatican is a sovereign state, and the pope is a non-hereditary monarch with absolute power.
    — Gerald Posner, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • In Seborga, where the monarchy is not hereditary, elections take place every seven years and Princess Nina is the first woman to hold the post.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 28 Mar. 2022
  • This disorder, which can be hereditary, can give you dull or sharp pain that might feel similar to cramping.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 15 June 2023
  • But a hereditary link to these genetic changes has not been established.
    — Sanja Jelic, Verywell Health, 17 Nov. 2023
  • His love of the outdoors began after a hereditary retina disease left him blind a week before his freshman year of high school.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • History has hardly been kind to hereditary rulers of such an approach.
    — Lois McLatchie, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2022

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