How to Use founding father in a Sentence

founding father

noun

• Theodor Herzl is often credited as the founding father of modern Zionism.
• The same ideals were known to and shared by our founding fathers.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2018
• Berry is often hailed as one of the founding fathers of rock and roll.
  — Holly Alvarado, Orange County Register, 27 June 2024
• No one knows for sure when ice cream made its way to the US, but at least a few founding fathers were fans.
  — Maddie Burakoff and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 21 July 2019
• The need for speed goes back to founding father Henry at the 1901 Sweepstakes.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 10 July 2021
• The students, who are our focus, will learn that the founding fathers of Texas were not Stephen F. Austin and his group in 1821.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Apr. 2018
• In new book, Trump brags that even a founding father might not have beaten him .
  — Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 20 July 2021
• No one would doubt it who talked to the founding fathers of the Young Americans for Freedom.
  — Nr Staff, National Review, 30 Oct. 2017
• Kleinrock, 89, is one of the founding fathers of the internet.
  — Lauren Peace, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
• Cassi was among the founding fathers of the Olympic Conference in 1959.
  — Phil Anastasia, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• It’s currently called the Benjamin Rush Garden, on the site of what once was the founding father’s home.
  — Kristen De Groot, Philly.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Halas became a founding father of the NFL, and Thorpe joined him.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 6 May 2018
• 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
• The two most public founding fathers of the franchise — Phil Rawlins and Adrian Heath — are gone.
  — Mike Bianchi, Pro Soccer USA, 3 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The family traces its ancestry back to the founding fathers of the United States.
  — Greg Garrison, AL.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• 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
• To this day, no Turkish citizen is allowed to bear the last name of the country’s founding father.
  — Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2023
• Kenyatta, the 55-year-old son of Kenya's founding father, has already served one five-year term.
  — Joe Sterling, CNN, 4 Sep. 2017
• If this is a new normal, Drake will be remembered as one of its founding fathers.
  — Alex Swhear, Variety, 8 Oct. 2023
• From vintage cars to founding fathers, there’s plenty to do in Philly this weekend.
  — Aubrey Nagle, Philly.com, 14 June 2018
• 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
• At the start of the episode, we're shown a statue of the founding father of Riverdale, General Augustus Pickens, in a local park.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Jan. 2018
• New Orleans, and in turn the world, lost not only a founding fathers of the city’s sound but also one of its fiercest guardians last year, Allen Toussaint.
  — Hannah Hayes, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2016
• Adam Smith is today known as the founding father of economics.
  — Ryan P. Hanley, National Review, 3 Dec. 2020
• The ruins of a building designed by founding father Thomas Jefferson remain on the property, and a portrait of him hangs in the barrel room.
  — Wanda Mann, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024