"ancestor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- We're only doing what our American ancestors did in the last century-was He pondered a moment.
- He was the first American ancestor of a large number of Burnhams.
- He is the first in his position known to have Native American ancestors.
- However, the two men do not appear to have a common American ancestor, as there are numerous branches of the Cox family that came to America.
- He wanted to be laid to rest in the original birthplace of his first American ancestor and other Eliot ancestors.
- "I'm not an immigrant," added Mr. Ellison, who traces his American ancestors back to 1742.
- Abraham Hill "was the first American ancestor of this branch of the family."
- His earliest American ancestor emigrated to Connecticut from Scotland in 1625.
- An example is the "one-drop rule" implemented in some state laws that treated anyone with a single known African American ancestor as black.
- Citizens take considerabl pride in having American ancestors.
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