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How to use inherit in a sentence

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By paying the taxes, you will one day inherit the home without the burden of the tax liability.
In case the deceased has left no ascendant or descendent but has left the uterine brother and sister, each of the two inherit one sixth.
The courts eventually upheld her claim to the property, but only because she had no son to inherit it.
He eventually took over his mothers fleet of ships and appeared to inherit her nautical skills.
Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?
An eldest son would retain the difference until his father's death, when he would inherit the undifferenced arms.
They think of themselves as blue blood and most of them inherit the savageness of their parents too.
For example, a child may inherit certain traits from his parents such as height.
If I were them I'd be miffed by her insistence that when she dies they will not inherit a penny.
The first person to hold this cube with mortal hands shall inherit all of my strength.
Badgers inherit setts from their parents, generation after generation, while always expanding and refining them.
When Jesus in the Beatitudes says that the meek shall inherit the earth, he repeats the psalmist's wishful thinking.
According to Lamarck, evolution occurs because organisms can inherit traits which have been acquired by their ancestors.
However, I was my mother's only child, and since her lineage was traced maternally, I would inherit something from her at her passing.
The actors inherit these mannerisms and make the characters their own in the most delightful of ways.
Daughters cannot inherit the disease in this way but can become carriers and pass it down to their sons.
There is a two-in-four chance that the child will inherit one of each kind of gene and be a carrier like the parents and free of disease.
The estate tax exempts surviving spouses, which means they can inherit an unlimited amount of assets without triggering taxes.
They can inherit anything from as little as an assegai to as much as a few beasts.
A liberated humanity would be able to inherit its historical legacy free of guilt.
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Examples from Classical Literature
We inherit the right to be interested in Argentina, and to be proud of Argentina.
The aim was to immediately inherit the wealth and power accumulated by generations of elitist rule.
It seems, for the time, to inherit all that has yet existed and to dictate to the unborn.
Each party claimed a right to inherit the lands of the decedent, according to the laws.
Remember, we may inherit a good antique or objet d'art, buy one, or bequeath one.
We inherit a past which weighs upon us and obsesses us, but in some degree each generation is born anew.
In time Midas, the son of Gordias, came to inherit the throne and crown of Phrygia.
Speculation was rife as to who would inherit the estate which he left behind him.
He is just finishing his law studies, and he will inherit his father's practice as a solicitor.
Yet did not his Successors durably inherit that scruple, but some were anointed, and solemnly accepted the Diadem of regality.
The false cannot inherit the true nor the unclean the lovely.
They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on the distaff side.
It was Walker, my sweet pet,' replied Miss Mowcher, 'and he came of a long line of Walkers, that I inherit all the Hookey estates from.
Thus there was no progeny to inherit their atavistic tendencies.
No one remained to inherit their good name and little fortune.
You will inherit a very good practice and a comfortable fortune.
I inherit my father's name, and I do not choose that the shadow of disgrace should darken it.
Sir Alexander MacRobert of Cawnpore and Cromar and his second wife Lady Rachel had no heirs to carry on their life's work and inherit their wealth.
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