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Example sentences for: forebears

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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.
' " 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."
Through the easy and logical expedient of converting nouns to verbs, our linguistic forebears established a tradition that has continued through every age.
Joe Biden started off by quoting British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock on the hard life of his uneducated, coal-digging forebears.
Their pharaonic forebears knew nothing of the sort.