forebear

Example Sentences

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One of the Lynxley forebears invented a system of “weather walls” that ensure each type of animal can exist in his own ideal climate, from snowbound plains to the savannah.

From The Wall Street Journal

At the moment, none of the new hominins is convincing as a direct forebear of Homo.

From Science Magazine

When a monster lurches from the thicket in Dragon’s Dogma 2, which arrives on Friday, the game crackles with the cadence of its fighting forebears: the swing of a sword — bang — followed by bone-crunching pow.

From New York Times

Giamatti takes his surname from his father's Italian ancestry, but his family also includes forebears from Scotland.

From BBC

In the 1940s, it was renamed the Glynne Arms but was condemned as unsafe and scheduled for demolition until a forebear of Marston’s bought it and made it safe.

From Seattle Times