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Example sentences for: forefathers

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They are as industrious and hardworking as their forefathers.
Many retreated into the hills to make their own way, the forefathers of today’s small-scale, self-sufficient farmers.
Our forefathers didn't have sex and violence in mind when they crafted First Amendment freedoms.
Lewis respected his civil rights forefathers but did not worship them.
Here are a few of the methods of child-restraint practiced by our forefathers and foremothers--many of whom were patriotic, religious, and of high moral character: swaddling their children, depriving them of food (it was thought to keep babies quiet), tying them to chairs, and beating them severely.