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Example sentences for: forebears

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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).
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.
Rather than adopt a cant of guttural grunts attributable to our furry forebears, I suggest that we drag the populace toward an elegant tongue.
Their pharaonic forebears knew nothing of the sort.
But Szwed overlooks a crucial distinction between Sun Ra and his forebears.