How to Use founding father in a Sentence

founding father

noun

• Theodor Herzl is often credited as the founding father of modern Zionism.
• The need for speed goes back to founding father Henry at the 1901 Sweepstakes.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 10 July 2021
• In new book, Trump brags that even a founding father might not have beaten him .
  — Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 20 July 2021
• Kleinrock, 89, is one of the founding fathers of the internet.
  — Lauren Peace, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
• Read more on the House's founding father, Archie Burnett, and then shop the collection here.
  — Talia Abbas, Glamour, 21 May 2021
• The score uses hip-hop, jazz and R&B to tell the story of founding father Alexander Hamilton.
  — oregonlive, 19 Feb. 2020
• Manu Ginobili, a founding father of the Spurs’ Coffee Gang, is still rocking with the crew.
  — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Apr. 2021
• George Stepanof wasn’t the founding father of beach volleyball.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
• But many here regard J.G. Boswell as the city’s real founding father.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• China seems to be saying to the world that both Fukuyama and founding father James Madison were wrong.
  — John C. “chuck” Chalberg, Star Tribune, 23 Jan. 2021
• If this is a new normal, Drake will be remembered as one of its founding fathers.
  — Alex Swhear, Variety, 8 Oct. 2023
• Domino, a son and (nearly) lifelong resident of the 9th Ward, was a founding father of rock ‘n’ roll.
  — Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 10 Dec. 2020
• But his vision is a far cry from the ideas of the modern country’s founding fathers, analysts say.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
• Adam Smith is today known as the founding father of economics.
  — Ryan P. Hanley, National Review, 3 Dec. 2020
• The driving force for Serfilippi was to get to know and remember the people held in bondage by the founding father.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2020
• Richard Garriott has already made a name for himself as a founding father of the video-game industry.
  — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 23 July 2023
• And founding father Scott Williams, Apopka’s head coach, has more expansion plans in mind.
  — Buddy Collings, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2022
• This tribute to the founding father has been standing up for democracy since 1884.
  — Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2021
• With a wearable strapped to his waistband, the philandering founding father got his steps in.
  — Theo Miller, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• Michael Douglas is dusting off a powdered wig to take on the role of one of America's founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
• The founding fathers – the founders of this country warned against single party impeachments.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2023
• Yet the midnight ride of that founding father, Caesar Rodney, never got the same press as Paul Revere’s journey.
  — New York Times, 6 Dec. 2020
• And so amid the national distress of the Civil War, Lincoln in 1861 became the founding father of the modern Thanksgiving.
  — David M. Shribman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
• This is exactly the quagmire our founding fathers wanted to avoid.
  — Arkansas Online, 5 July 2023
• The arguable founding father of the streetwear aesthetic of fashion Karl Kani was honored with a lifetime achievement award.
  — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• The founding father of one of the world’s largest media companies would watch his own productions in the home theater, which is still intact today.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• In September, Mollel, the school's founding father, passed away at 42 after fighting acute leukemia for six months.
  — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
• In Cox's photo, the artist herself stands in for Washington -- a Black woman claiming the same stage as the White founding father who once owned people of color.
  — Karl Kusserow, CNN, 3 May 2021
• Helfrich lives in it, and has turned it into a shrine to founding father Thomas Paine, who stayed here during the Revolutionary War.
  — Martha Teichner, CBS News, 9 July 2023
• The proposal was the brainchild of Jean Monnet, now considered a founding father of the European Union.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024