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How to use matrilineally in a sentence

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Family relations are traced back equally both matrilineally and patrilineally, and active kin groups often extend to the great-grandparents.
The most important kin grouping is the family, which is defined both matrilineally and patrilineally.
Land rights pass patrilineally or matrilineally to surviving members of kin groups.
The life blood of Petre's rustic cooking is honest soups, seasonal ragouts and stews and handmade pastry, passed down matrilineally through the generations.
While Ganda society was patrilineal, kings were selected matrilineally, effectively preventing fathers from passing power along to their children.
Descent is traced patrilineally, not matrilineally, and Minang men marry late because they go on rantau in order to earn enough money to marry.
There are currently no treatments for this family of diseases, which are inherited matrilineally.
Thus, a mixed marriage is forbidden as is the union of a horse and a donkey, and in both unions the offspring are judged matrilineally.
Gene flow appears to be biased towards males, but overall populations are matrilineally structured.
Some of these relationships consist of matrilineally related females and their dependent offspring.
Some societies reckon descent patrilineally for some purposes, and matrilineally for others.
Geneticists have suggested that some Icelanders may carry Beothuk DNA, which has been passed down matrilineally over the centuries.
The nature of the mother's death, in particular, symbolises the tearing apart of the Tuareg ways of life given that the Tuareg trace descent matrilineally.
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