Sample Sentences for
progeny
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  • She seeks immortality through her progeny.
    progeny = children and their descendants
  • For to play a system requires money, while the wages of a gardener's helper do not lap over the needs of a wife and numerous progeny.  (source)
    progeny = children
  • He was ambitious in the extreme, and like Walt McCandless, his aspirations extended to his progeny.†  (source)
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  • "Estimated Progeny Differences," said the older man.†  (source)
  • Oh, whatever would I do without my child-progeny sister to tell me what to do?†  (source)
  • The rogue progeny of some sweet-named Caribbean hurricane had come north, liked it and stayed.†  (source)
  • And which is also busy—but instead of people in sharp suits going about their day—it's now wizards and witches in robes mostly trying to work out how to say good-bye to their beloved progeny.†  (source)
  • What is it about a nation that would foster a willingness in its people to destroy their own artworks, ravage their own cities, and kill their own progeny without compunction?†  (source)
  • He'd accused me of starting the whole thing, just because Gaea had duped one of my progeny, a boy named Octavian, into plunging the Roman and Greek demigod camps into a civil war that almost destroyed human civilization.†  (source)
  • She knew what it was—she had succumbed to that profound drive shared by all creatures who are faced with death—the drive to seek immortality through progeny.†  (source)
  • The regime created an instant pool of such women by the simple tactic of declaring all second marriages and nonmarital liaisons adulterous, arresting the female partners, and, on the grounds that they were morally unfit, confiscating the children they already had, who were adopted by childless couples of the upper echelons who were eager for progeny by any means.†  (source)
  • He was apart from his progeny, as if having no clue where they came from, and no interest in what happened to them.†  (source)
  • One of the faculty wives—one especially prolific with progeny, and one whose maternal girth was more substantial than well coordinated—slipped under the Volkswagen as it was being returned to its wheels; although she was not hurt, she was wedged quite securely under the stubborn automobile.†  (source)
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