How to use in-sentence of “matrilineal”:
+ They are a matrilineal society.
+ As Ifugao has a matrilineal culture, it is usually the wife who leads in these stories, and her brother occupies a higher position than her husband.
+ The Garos are one of the few remaining matrilineal societies in the world.
+ Panikkar argues that it is this type of relationship that resulted in the matrilineal and matrilocal system.
+ In contrast to other provinces of the Dutch Republic, Friesland, Groningen Groningen and John VI, the brother of William of Orange, and comprises in addition a matrilineal ancestry with the house of Orange-Nassau.
+ Within each of the six nations, people are divided into a number of matrilineal clans.
+ The system of patrilineal descent is usually more common than matrilineal descent.
+ Pillai has claimed that the Nambudiris from the 1100s enforced matrilineal polyandry on the previously patrilineal communities of the area, sociologist Randall Collins thinks it is unlikely that such a change could be imposed and says that “more probably it was the result of a process of marriage politics spread by emulation in the decentralised situation of status competition.” Some other scholars believe that the matrilineal customs predate the period entirely and cite the queens of the Pandyan dynasty as evidence for this.
