Words similar to forebears

Example sentences for: forebears

How can you use “forebears” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Through the easy and logical expedient of converting nouns to verbs, our linguistic forebears established a tradition that has continued through every age.
They [presumably the crew] were forebears of today's Coast Guard.
Our forebears used to hunt it with hawks, and they could easily distinguish hunter from quarry.
' " The piece concludes that Zhu "will have more than kept faith with his Communist-Chinese forebears if he can leave for posterity tips for the near-impossible task of reconciling market reforms with a one-party dictatorship."
Their pharaonic forebears knew nothing of the sort.