"ancestor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A year later the VOC built a new town named "Batavia" to honor Batavieren, the Dutch ancestors.
- Right here, doubtless, his Dutch ancestor had come ashore some three hundred years ago.
- Their Dutch ancestors, who used the same techniques to acquire Manhattan and Staten Island, bought the land from local Indians in 1730.
- "Either people will run right by, or stop and be interested," said Anna Vietor, whose Dutch ancestors arrived in the Hudson Valley in 1642.
- Most of them have Dutch, German, French Huguenot, ancestors.
- Her parents emigrated to the US from Trinidad; she has spoken of Chinese, Indian, African, and Dutch ancestors.
- A proud bone structure, dawn-gray eyes and a stubborn chin, a blending of her Scottish and Dutch ancestors.
- Van der Zant has Dutch ancestors.
- Van's agricultural credentials traced back to his Dutch ancestors, and also practices his grandfather had which were not accepted at the time but Van was promoting now.
- An historical prequel about one of Charlie's Dutch ancestors.
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