Sentence examples for many forebears from inspiring English sources

Cyril has many forebears, such as Antoine, in "The 400 Blows," who is sent to a young offenders' institute, and the hero of Maurice Pialat's "L'Enfance Nue," carted from one foster family to the next.

The bachelor-party-gone-wrong comedy is a staple, with many forebears (as light as Bachelor Party with Tom Hanks, as dark as Peter Berg's Very Bad Things).

Michael Fassbender and Justin Kurzel are currently in pre-production on Assassin's Creed, which certainly has the potential to outgun its many disappointing forebears.

Many of her forebears, she writes, were "almost famous," including two congressmen and a naval surgeon.

Many of my forebears were sailors and I wanted to know more about their lives.

Many of his forebears have written primarily about their own lives.

Like their forebears, many of today's prospectors have little more than a pan, a shovel and a dream.

The church boasts both a tower and spire, and it is here that Andrew Cavendish now lies along with many of his forebears.

On the one hand, Hogsback feels like an ancestral home, she said, because so many of her forebears passed through there.

Many of our forebears changed their names - perhaps for legal reasons, to try and fit in, or simply on a whim.

Many of their forebears arrived in the New World via settlements in Northern Ireland, an odyssey celebrated by one of their number, former Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia, in his 2004 book "Born Fighting".