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How to use forebear in a sentence

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I know by my family history that a forebear of mine turned on the gods of Mother India and professed faith to the One True God.
Your personality, life course and career will have no necessary relation to that of your forebear.
The Western Arrernte landscape, made famous by his forebear Albert Namatjira, figures strongly in some recent songs.
Seeing the work as a crude forebear of Elizabethan tragic drama effaces its status as an instance of de casibus literature.
As a child, I heard the stories from my father about our notable forebear, an honest man who was saved from a massacre, the sole survivor.
My forebear was, according to the family account, very depressed when his teeth started falling out when he was in late middle age.
The forebear surely would have been horrified that the alleged perpetrator of the resulting slaughter was of his own blood.
It has the taint of the louche, as did its forebear, the nautch show.
A family has been treasuring for 75 years a handsome gold headed walking stick, originally the property of a forebear, a noted divine.
Some of them even felt it was the forebear of all large mountain and mastiff breeds.
We think our readers will be surprised and encouraged to discover that the forebear of fundamentalism was a true Baptist guided by historic convictions.
They cherish the cross-border meetings as the symbolic forebear of a putative all-Ireland administration.
However, on September 28, 1999, the CRTC issued Telecom Decision 99-14 to forebear from regulation Teleglobe Inc.
Feuds divided and diminished Loglan, Lojban's forebear, which also aimed to eliminate ambiguity and illogicality.
I think they could learn something from their pioneering forebear.
Hamburglar is stealing headlines for a look that has diners used to the cartoonish approachability of his forebear wondering what to make of the man in the trenchcoat, fedora and Velcro shoes.
Cassandra is obviously not the only forecaster, and sadly on occasion this particular modern-day soothsayer fails to match the infallibility of his classical forebear.
Outside his political base of Alberta, many fear that his new party has inherited the social conservatism of its chief forebear, the Canadian Alliance.
Yet I cannot forebear to mention the limited scope of our common achievements in this field since we signed the Joint Declaration three years ago.
We need to better define the shape and the roles of the CRTC and the Competition Tribunal on a going forward basis and to better deal with those roles in the future after we forebear ILECs from regulation.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And I gazed on the bell-branch, sleep's forebear, far sung by the Sennachies.
And that ape again, not a score of thousands from the monkey, his forebear.
He remembered the repeated injunctions of his great forebear who had lived and died in the Susan Road beside the gasworks.
Papers there record that my forebear, Cyril Spink, had his doubts at the time.
Many other reasons and facts we might mention, but we forebear.
Presently the willows parted on the other bank, and Robin could hardly forebear laughing out right.
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