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Example sentences for: forebears

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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 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.
But Szwed overlooks a crucial distinction between Sun Ra and his forebears.
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."