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Example sentences for: forebears

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' " 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."
They [presumably the crew] were forebears of today's Coast Guard.
At that moment I would have bet my very soul that he hailed from The Land Of Rabbie Burns, and the first words he uttered showed the intuition inherited from my mystic forebears to be firing on all cylinders.
The sins of our forebears should not be visited upon us.
Keillor, by incorporating the names of the three youths in the fiery furnace into his blessing, is merely following in the footsteps of some of his forebears in esotericism, the Copts of early Christian Egypt, who often invoked Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego alongside such fantasy figures as Thoulal, Moulal, and Boulal in their magical charms.