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:

Their Slavic forebears migrated to Kosovo around A.D. 500, and they contend that Serbs have lived there ever since.
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.
Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary [hereafter W], despite many improvements over its forebears, still suffers from shortcomings ultimately traceable to the aberrational lexicography reflected in Webster's Third Unabridged . Although direct comparison between the Longman Dictionary of the English Language [hereafter L] and the W reveals many similarities, there are many differences, too.
Rather than adopt a cant of guttural grunts attributable to our furry forebears, I suggest that we drag the populace toward an elegant tongue.