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Example sentences for: forefathers

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They are as industrious and hardworking as their forefathers.
In other shots, Indians with raised tomahawks and spears give rise to a nervous wall panel at the ICP assuring us that Levinthal is "mindful of real history," and that his work somehow "prompts the viewer's recollections of our forefathers' injustices: cultural expansionism, genocide and racism."
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.
Many retreated into the hills to make their own way, the forefathers of today’s small-scale, self-sufficient farmers.