scions

Related Words

Definitions

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

• The scion of a wealthy Florida family, Greenberg, now 36, had swept into the Seminole County tax collector’s office in 2016 with a partially self-funded campaign, defeating longtime incumbent and fellow Republican Ray Valdes on the promise of reform.

• The contemporary State Department is the scion of America’s first intelligence and diplomatic organization, the Committee of Secret Correspondence.

• Grafting a scion — the flowering, fruiting part of a plant — onto established rootstock can help young fruit trees or vines bear fruit earlier and improve their resistance to pests and disease.

• Also, as a scion of the Hyatt Hotels family fortune, Microsoft board member, and founder of the Chicago-based PSP Partners investment firm, Pritzker has a nonpareil grasp on the implications for business and investors.

• He was a scion of immense wealth, a civil rights activist, and an art collector and patron.

• The party will need to do much, much more than replace one scion with another if it is ever to come back to national prominence.

• The rock star scion became one of the loudest voices of her generation; prolific on social media and in the British press.

• A DuPont family scion was convicted of sexually assaulting his daughter but received no jail time.

• Sharif, 63, was born into money as the scion of a very wealthy family in Lahore.

• Such an alliance was not to be tolerated for a moment, in connection with the last scion of his name and race.

• Personally, I enjoyed the frank, untrammelled and prodigiously accomplished scion of a vulgar race.

• Doctor Bataille, poor man, is the scion of an ordinary ancestry within the narrow limits of flesh and blood.

• The compulsory subdivision of estates at the death of the owner enables every scion to live, if not to thrive, on the home stock.