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Example sentences for: forebears

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The interest in man's forebears did not become fashionable upon the publication, a few years ago, of Roots : on a far larger scale, we have been trying to discover all we can about the origins not of men but of man.
Through the easy and logical expedient of converting nouns to verbs, our linguistic forebears established a tradition that has continued through every age.
Rather than adopt a cant of guttural grunts attributable to our furry forebears, I suggest that we drag the populace toward an elegant tongue.
Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary [hereafter W], despite many improvements over its forebears, still suffers from shortcomings ultimately traceable to the aberrational lexicography reflected in Webster's Third Unabridged . Although direct comparison between the Longman Dictionary of the English Language [hereafter L] and the W reveals many similarities, there are many differences, too.
Their Slavic forebears migrated to Kosovo around A.D. 500, and they contend that Serbs have lived there ever since.