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How to use forbears in a sentence

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If our forbears were big eaters, or if we were fed a lot in childhood, our needs will be greater.
Ostensibly it is the story of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island who revert to being as savage as their forbears.
In contrast to what he sees as the dry formalism of his forbears, Morrison offers a self-consciously passionate response to the play.
Ancestor worship is also near universal, with small shrines to a family's forbears adorning many homes.
We are afraid to express regret for the past for fear of condemning our forbears.
If the buyer forbears this examination, TURIMED AG assumes no liability of any kind.
Coming from Shaba in Republic of Congo, the Songye are related to the Luba, who share the same forbears.
Mainly fishmen and farmers, they carved numerous masks and figures in order to venerate their forbears and hosts of gods called water spirit.
Never is it more obvious that our lives become easier than those of our forbears.
Regular overhauls of coach education and youth development mean an academy player should now be better trained than any of his forbears.
Today, Europeans live longer, healthier lives than their forbears did, and we can expect life expectancy to increase in the future.
Originating from the sacred wood, forbears and forest spirits ' sancturay, this mask was worn by a Poro initiate.
This Nooteboom was a competent and clever business man, perhaps even more so than his forbears.
Among the Fang, each family owns a Byéri or a reliquary box where the forbears ' bones are kept.
Thankfully, our medieval forbears were made of sterner stuff.
Our approach is governed by meticulous attention in every aspect of our work, respect for the land and for nature, qualities that were instilled in us by our forbears.
The Guugu Yimithirr, whose forbears had encountered Captain Cook near the town that bears his name in 1770, were at risk of collaborating with invading Japanese in 1942, according to the government of the time.
Its forbears can be traced to the Cape Colony of southern Africa, where they cross with the early pioneer's dogs and the semi-domesticated, ridged Hottentot hunting dogs.
All my forbears were deep-water skippers in the days of sail.
However, even when the CRTC forbears from price regulation of certain services, it can continue to regulate these services for certain other matters such as network access and interconnection.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The scythe, the sickle, and the flail were the same as their forbears had used for centuries.
A marshy meadow had been selected by his forbears for colonization.
Among his forbears had been wild moss-troopers and cattle-reivers, lairds of their own lands, as powerful as kings in their own countryside.
And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forbears fought are still at issue around the globe.
There was a sword that one of my forbears wore at Edgehill and other battles in Charles the First's time.
It seemed but a step to the Neanderthal skull and our troglodyte forbears.
This was composed of Steward, Kwaque, Cocky, and Scraps, and he ran with it as ancient forbears had ran with their own kind in the hunting.
The soil and the hovel were his, descended to him from his forbears!
But other forces had been at work in Rebecca, and the traits of unknown forbears had been wrought into her fibre.
For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
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