ancestress - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • mine: The Quaker woman Elizabeth Hooton was an ancestress of mine.

Converse of object

  • become: She thus became an ancestress of the Ormsby-Gore family.

Adjective modifier

  • distant: When you say " we turned from Dea " , are you referring to some distant ancestress of contemporary maid?

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