Sentence examples for forebears to from inspiring English sources

They even invoked the ghosts of their Victorian forebears to justify their actions.

Proud of his roots, he wanted his forebears to be remembered for succeeding against the odds.

These emotions evolved to enable our forebears to escape predators, fight enemies or reject polluted food.

The Carnochan men follow their forebears to Yale and, with a few exceptions, to worldly success.

That with God gone we look to our forebears, to know that there are identities beyond our own.

I said it borrowed from the hard experience as well as the daring of his forebears to make something new.

Part of me could scarce forebear to cheer.

It dates to the 1932 Chrysler Trifon concept, which was the forebear to the landmark 1934 Chrysler Airflow.

In sum, the idea of natural rights, forebear to the contemporary notion of human rights, played a key role in late 18th- and early 19th-century struggles against political absolutism.

But, within a short time, the criminal bar could not – and did not – forebear to cheer Tom's evident aptitude to the demands of criminal justice.

Fahey's role as unlikely forebear to a generation of witchy muso types began when she left Bananarama in 1988, due to a row over a pizza.