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Example sentences for: forebears

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All in all, I believe that if I ever meet one of my forebears, one of those pale, skinny yeshiva students from the eastern European shtetl of 1897, I will be able to say to him, "I, too, am a Jew--not a saint, but a Jew like you."
Their Slavic forebears migrated to Kosovo around A.D. 500, and they contend that Serbs have lived there ever since.
They [presumably the crew] were forebears of today's Coast Guard.
Rather than adopt a cant of guttural grunts attributable to our furry forebears, I suggest that we drag the populace toward an elegant tongue.
But Szwed overlooks a crucial distinction between Sun Ra and his forebears.