How to Use forebear in a Sentence

forebear

noun

• His forebears fought in the American Civil War.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The 2019 Volkswagen Beetle, inspired by its forebears, will be among the last of its kind.
  — Chester Dawson, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
• Making room for witness is what our forebears might call it.
  — G. Jeffrey MacDonald, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2020
• 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 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
• Paris has no shortage of ace producers, and Dustycloud isn't about to let down his forebears.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 11 Oct. 2019
• Like her literary forebear and influence Jane Austen, Ali has a great deal to say about moral life.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2022
• But the descendants of Turkey’s Christians, many of them dispersed around the world since the 1920s, maintain that the Turks murdered about half of their forebears and expelled the rest.
  — Benny Morris and, WSJ, 17 May 2019
• Few of their forebears had made it into their sixties, which meant the Alps’ days were probably almost over.
  — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• Jorge Luis Borges reviewed imaginary books to overcome the enormous weight of the forebears who obsessed him.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• The actual origins of the term are a bit murky, though many point to this tweet from October 2018 as a possible forebear.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 25 June 2020
• Today in a minute Stuck in the ancestral homeland: Her forebears struggled hard to leave the Azores more than a century ago.
  — Massimo Vitali, National Geographic, 28 Apr. 2020
• Our friend the Corolla Cross gets 30 miles per gallon, a benchmark its self-effacing sedan forebears couldn’t meet just a decade ago.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• Again, the youngsters, like Jessica Reyes, 11, and Eric Lopez, 14, showed intense interest in the stories and the art of their forebears.
  — Lola Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023
• Delaney Cain’s forebears founded the Black Diamond coal mine in Lafayette.
  — Joanne Davidson, The Denver Post, 1 Aug. 2019
• But the electric car and the electric truck are at least as sleek and glamorous as their internal combustion forebears.
  — Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books, 14 Sep. 2023
• The finished product ought to crib styling cues from its forebear without recycling its looks.
  — Gregory Fink, Car and Driver, 23 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024