Sentence examples for maternal forebears from inspiring English sources
She has always been intrigued by the mystery surrounding her maternal forebears.
I would rather share the fate of my maternal forebears — old old age with an intact mind in a ravaged body — than the fate of my other grandmother.
Martin's maternal forebears came to Nebraska from Illinois by covered wagon in the eighteen-eighties, and received free land from the government near Venango, in Perkins County, on the condition that they stay for five years.
I wondered if she, my American-born child, would ever understand the ways of her maternal forebears or if they would be a foreign concept to her, like dinosaurs.
Indeed, so sure does he seem of his "allure with the ladies", that Boris pleaded an unexplained "diary clash" for not attending last night's hustings organised by the Fawcett Society – the women's rights organisation named after his own maternal forebear, Millicent Fawcett.
Watson's male forebears, maternal and paternal, were Australian Light Horsemen.
Denise Medolla, a United Airlines pilot, and John Medolla, an aviation-maintenance instructor for United, trace their interest in wine to their Italian forebears, particularly Mr. Medolla's Sicilian maternal grandmother.
Growing up in vanilla Vermont, carrying the surname and lineage of English forebears who reached America in 1630, he put no special energy into either affirming or denying his maternal roots.
Tells about his forebears.
