Sample Sentences forpaternity (auto-selected)
paternity as in: use DNA to establish paternity
-
•
Graham McSwiney assessed me, as if he feared I might represent an elderly paternity suit.† (source)
-
•
So the central theme of the novel is not the stocking of Montana but unacknowledged paternity.† (source)
-
•
One woman even filed a paternity suit falsely claiming that Walter was the father of her child, a child that was born less than eight months after Walter's release.† (source)
Show 3 more sentences
-
•
Her given name is Sofia and she resides in the Metropol Hotel, where she has been raised by one Alexander Rostov, a Former Person under house arrest; although there appears to be some question as to her paternity....† (source)
-
•
Before I'd move the Lamartine household I'd hit the tribe with a fistful of paternity suits that would make their heads spin.† (source)
-
•
He shrugged and Wendy saw Danny's paternity in the gesture; Jack could hardly have done it better himself.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more
-
•
But unluckily the Varens, six months before, had given me this filette Adele, who, she affirmed, was my daughter; and perhaps she may be, though I see no proofs of such grim paternity written in her countenance: Pilot is more like me than she.† (source)
-
•
She remembered—betwixt a smile and a shudder—the talk of the neighbouring townspeople, who, seeking vainly elsewhere for the child's paternity, and observing some of her odd attributes, had given out that poor little Pearl was a demon offspring: such as, ever since old Catholic times, had occasionally been seen on earth, through the agency of their mother's sin, and to promote some foul and wicked purpose.† (source)
-
•
Heathcliff smiled again, as if it were rather too bold a jest to attribute the paternity of that bear to him.† (source)
-
•
Nor did he allow anyone to doubt the legitimate paternity of the count.† (source)
-
•
Rather than glorying in iranian politics, he took pride in paternity.† (source)
-
•
He also told me that wolves have the same general outlook toward pups that Eskimos have toward children — which is to say that actual paternity does not count for much, and there are no orphans as we use the term.† (source)
-
•
There were water rights, boundary disputes, astray arguments, domestic relations, paternity matters—all to be settled without force of arms.† (source)
-
•
What is paternity to the gods, who inhabit a succession of bodies, begetting scores of offspring by others who also change bodies four or five times a century?† (source)
-
•
Pulling swords out of stones is not a legal proof of paternity, I admit, but the kings of the Old Ones are not fighting you about that They have rebelled, although you are their feudal sovereign, simply because the throne is insecure.† (source)
-
•
Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)