- plural of forebear.
forebears
Example Sentences
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On view at LACMA, David Hockney’s ‘Seven Yorkshire Landscape Videos’ travels country roads, recording the scene in ways that echo artistic forebears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
The University of Aberdeen will now lead a larger five-year exploration of the site, which archaeologists hope could reveal "a great deal about our early prehistoric forebears".
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
Suddenly, it was over, and the U.S. men joined their golden forebears from Lake Placid and Squaw Valley 1960.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
Just as his own immigrant forebears assimilated and their children were average, upwardly mobile, all-American citizens, so too are the more recent immigrants.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025
“Domishmen are notoriously stubborn, Your Grace. Prince Quentyn’s forebears fought your own for die better part of two hundred years. He will not go without you.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
