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Example sentences for: forebears

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The sins of our forebears should not be visited upon us.
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."
This evidently primordial phonetic series has continued to persist through the ages and is obviously as eminently appealing to Keillor's youthful narrator today as it was to his forebears several millennia ago and half a world away.
And although the ancestors of some Puzzos might have lived near a well ( puzza dialect for pozzo well or fountain), the forebears of others may have smelled like a sewer ( puzzo stench).
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.