foremother
Example Sentences
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Even today, many in the country of 12 million know little about their foremother.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2021
Since then, black women have made sure that she is not forgotten, naming their clubs and schools for this foremother.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2020
I also found the reboot too glossy, too chic, and rather boring when compared with its foremother.
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2020
“She’s a pioneering performance artist and poet, a mystic, a feminist foremother for a whole generation of women artists and writers.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2020
And as the heat of the room ebbed away, he told of her foremother and of his, and of the sturdy Welse who fought the great lone fight, and died, fighting, at Treasure City.
From A Daughter of the Snows by London, Jack
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
