forebears in English

noun
1
an ancestor.
One cannot hope to rise or succeed in the world unless one's forebears had the requisite abilities.

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1. His realism was not the realism of his forebears.

2. 1 I'll come back to the land of my forebears.

3. 2 His realism was not the realism of his forebears.

4. 12. (a) Like their forebears, in what wrongdoing did Ezekiel’s contemporaries engage?

5. My forebears hardly knew what went on outside their small feudal society.

6. 3 One of his forebears could have won the support of Wilfrid.

7. 7 My forebears hardly knew what went on outside their small feudal society.

8. 16 Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.

9. Rather, our verb is based on forebears in Late Latin (anathematizare) and Greek (Anathematizein)

10. Antonyms for Consequents include antecedents, ancestors, family, predecessors, ancestries, descent, extraction, forebears, forefathers and progenitors

11. 21 Try as they might, however, the younger singers rarely measure up to their forebears.

12. 6 Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.

13. 4 Like their forebears, they chose subjects to illustrate the many facets of village life.

14. Try as they might, however, the younger singers rarely measure up to their forebears.

15. 5 But in the land of my forebears, women sit around and wait for their men.

16. One family has a Confederate cavalryman among its forebears, the other is descended from slaves.

17. But in the land of my forebears, women sit around and wait for their men.

18. 9 People not only had more than their forebears; they also had revolutionary new products.

19. 8 One family has a Confederate cavalryman among its forebears,[www.Sentencedict.com] the other is descended from slaves.

20. Rather, our verb is based on forebears in Late Latin ("anathematizare") and Greek ("Anathematizein")

21. The fillings are as generous as their Stateside forebears and the rye bread has a nice, chewy texture.

22. 22 Perhaps it will be consummated on a scale of which our forebears could scarcely dream.

23. They stood for the preservation of the mores and folkways that had guided their forebears for generations.

24. 17 They stood for the preservation of the mores and folkways that had guided their forebears for generations.

25. Rather, our verb is based on forebears in Late Latin ("anathematizare") and Greek ("Anathematizein")

26. 12 The fillings are as generous as their Stateside forebears and the rye bread has a nice, chewy texture.

27. Karlin relates the oppressive anti-Semitism his forebears endured in a vague, almost elliptical style with dips into the stream of consciousness.

28. I'm glad it's not just me, Nina -- I was afraid I had been possessed by the spirits of my Anglophilic HB forebears.

29. 20 None the less they deserve notice and respect, for their forebears were once the most advanced and revolutionary creatures in the seas.

30. 6 He was correct in so far as our forebears were piteously shattered but quite wrong in thinking that they could be subjugated.

31. 10 Karlin relates the oppressive anti-Semitism his forebears endured in a vague, almost elliptical style with dips into the stream of consciousness.

32. 11 Indeed the habits of our civilised forebears at work and play would not always stand up to the scrutiny of the modern conscience.

33. The forebears of the Bandog are believed to be the American Pit Bull Terrier and the Neapolitan Mastiff, however other contributing bloodlines may include the early Bullenbeissers and crossed breeds used in the Crusades.

34. ‘The son brings a small mound of rice, water, and flowers or fruit, and Beseeches his forebears to keep their protective watch over the family and its fortunes.’ ‘A voice at the other end gives details of a medical emergency, and Beseeches the doctor to come at once to the hospital.’

35. The other horsey nook, the Polo de Paris, invites the public in for matches on its greensward not far from Long-champ, but tea on the terrace is a plush and private affair, which might draw such members as the Marquis de Ganay, the British Ambassador; Sir Gladwyn Jebb; the Count Robert Toulouse-Lautrec; or any number of Baroneted Rothschilds, whose forebears started the club in 1895.