How to Use forebear in a Sentence

forebear

noun

• His forebears fought in the American Civil War.
• Yu, who died last year, had forebears.
  — Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
• The guidance my forebears left me is a map.
  — Essence, 10 Oct. 2025
• But then, look at what our forebears put up with to build this great nation.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2017
• In its place is a new tree that seems to be in better shape than its forebear.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2022
• In its place is a new tree that seems to be in better shape than its forebear.
  — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2023
• First, the speaker is about half the size of its rather bulkier forebear.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 27 Sep. 2017
• Yeah, it’s truly damned by the power of its forebear.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
• But Katz did it, which wouldn't surprise his deli forebears not a bit.
  — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2018
• Judged against his forebears, Hamels doesn’t measure up.
  — The Athletic Mlb Staff, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
• Like its forebears, the comedy is played dead-straight.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
• Tom refers to is the forebear of the code run on your computer, your phone, your smart watch.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2022
• That just depends on where your forebears were in that mythical time.
  — Time Staff, Time, 14 May 2017
• Some of their forebears survived the Holocaust, some did not.
  — Kristin E. Holmes, Philly.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• Jones, like so many of her performance artist forebears, hit the road in her time of trouble.
  — Whitney Robinson, Town & Country, 19 Sep. 2016
• The high court, made good again, will then resume the righteous work of its fabled forebears.
  — Ian MacDougall, Harper's Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• On top of that, it's bound to have a show-stopping camera as all of its forebears have also had.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2018
• That goal also beckons this year’s club, none of whose players were alive when their forebears won it all.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2023
• Getting in on the trend and pulling it off in a way that would make its forebears proud takes a little finesse though.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2023
• As his forebears did, Jobbagy arrives at work at four in the morning.
  — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
• These names tie us to our forebears, in this case by reminding us of older ways of keeping time.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026
• Like their forebears, they were owned by the Jesuits of Maryland.
  — Ana Lucia Araujo, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
• Infiniti’s look called to mind two legendary forebears.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2026
• But like their Parthian forebears, Iran and its allies have the upper hand.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• Here are are a few Project Onward artists with their portraits of their artistic forebears.
  — Madeline Happold, Chicago Reader, 15 Feb. 2018
• Paris has no shortage of ace producers, and Dustycloud isn't about to let down his forebears.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 11 Oct. 2019
• The iPhone 12 Pro is almost two ounces heavier than its forebear.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 18 July 2022
• BttR nails this the same way its forebear did—by bouncing its wacky archetypes off of each other to comedic effect.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2022
• My Jewish forebears had got the hell out of Eastern Europe in time.
  — Joan Silber, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
• Dubbed the EVolved, the reborn sports car keeps its forebear’s trick door design but ditches its blocky styling.
  — Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 30 May 2022