How to Use forebear in a Sentence

forebear

noun
  • His forebears fought in the American Civil War.
  • First, the speaker is about half the size of its rather bulkier forebear.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 27 Sep. 2017
  • In its place is a new tree that seems to be in better shape than its forebear.
    Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Like its forebear, the new car comes with gullwing doors.
    Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 30 May 2022
  • Tom refers to is the forebear of the code run on your computer, your phone, your smart watch.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2022
  • But Katz did it, which wouldn't surprise his deli forebears not a bit.
    Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2018
  • But then, look at what our forebears put up with to build this great nation.
    Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2017
  • Like their forebears, they were owned by the Jesuits of Maryland.
    Ana Lucia Araujo, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
  • That's 3 decibels more than the PHEV and 5 decibels more than its forebear.
    Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Some of their forebears survived the Holocaust, some did not.
    Kristin E. Holmes, Philly.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • My forebears bought it in buckets, at the corner joint.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 12 July 2018
  • The high court, made good again, will then resume the righteous work of its fabled forebears.
    Ian MacDougall, Harper's Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Getting in on the trend and pulling it off in a way that would make its forebears proud takes a little finesse though.
    Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Jones, like so many of her performance artist forebears, hit the road in her time of trouble.
    Whitney Robinson, Town & Country, 19 Sep. 2016
  • On top of that, it's bound to have a show-stopping camera as all of its forebears have also had.
    Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2018
  • The iPhone 12 Pro is almost two ounces heavier than its forebear.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 18 July 2022
  • To be fair, Gallup did pick out one bright spot on the home front: younger men are doing more childcare than their forebears.
    Fortune, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Dubbed the EVolved, the reborn sports car keeps its forebear’s trick door design but ditches its blocky styling.
    Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 30 May 2022
  • But like their Parthian forebears, Iran and its allies have the upper hand.
    The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The 2019 Volkswagen Beetle, inspired by its forebears, will be among the last of its kind.
    Chester Dawson, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
  • Like its forebear, the Fortwo cabrio’s engine is mounted below the cargo floor and just ahead of the rear axle.
    Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 12 July 2017
  • Making room for witness is what our forebears might call it.
    G. Jeffrey MacDonald, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Here are are a few Project Onward artists with their portraits of their artistic forebears.
    Madeline Happold, Chicago Reader, 15 Feb. 2018
  • That goal also beckons this year’s club, none of whose players were alive when their forebears won it all.
    Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Like her obvious forebear Archie Bunker, this new Roseanne can be all things to all people.
    Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 27 Mar. 2018
  • That just depends on where your forebears were in that mythical time.
    Time Staff, Time, 14 May 2017
  • Like most radical works of art, the Gilder Center has plenty of forebears.
    Curbed, 25 Apr. 2023
  • BttR nails this the same way its forebear did—by bouncing its wacky archetypes off of each other to comedic effect.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Steve Bowen and the Ocean Race crew, circumnavigating the globe in their different ways, have a wide choice of forebears.
    Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Still others considered themselves Sons of Liberty, in the vein of their Revolutionary forebears.
    Longreads, 3 Oct. 2024

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