How to Use forebear in a Sentence

forebear

noun

• His forebears fought in the American Civil War.
• One of her maternal forebears was a slave-ship captain; another was a civil-rights lawyer and professor at Harvard Law School.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Since their forebears came from different regions of the Indian subcontinent, adhered to different religions, and spoke different languages, Asian South Africans are a diverse group.
  — James L. Gibson, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2015

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024