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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of be descended from in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of be descended from in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of be descended from in a Sentence

  1. Lenny Bruce:

    Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is -- One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.

  2. H.L. Mencken:

    It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

  3. Amanda Gorman:

    Somehow we've weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken, but simply unfinished. We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming President, only to find herself reciting for one.

  4. Charles Robert Darwin:

    Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

  5. Franklin D. Roosevelt:

    Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.


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  • से उतरनाHindi

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