Forebears in a sentence

Crump said that just as African-American forebears fought for this generation, today’s Blacks have to agitate on behalf of the generations to come.

He is always in conversation with his forebears and contemporaries, mindful that literature is a giant web and his own work has a long ancestry and living relatives.

However, what is so groundbreaking about the DNA study is that Native Americans appear to have been a mixed group, having ancestors directly from Western Eurasia as well as the forebears of those who are now living in Eastern Asia.

Is the final Ford Focus in for a fitting send off almost 30 years in the making, or will it, like its millennial contemporaries, slide into irrelevance alongside its Gen X and Baby Boomer forebears?

It’s also the land of my own forebears, and where my father, uncles, aunts and cousins grew up.

It was almost 135 years to the week since his forebears came over from Lithuania in 1888.

They have to prove — to themselves, to their fans, to baseball — that they will not channel their forebears, that success will not be an outlier in Queens, a happy accident.

As a tribute to the heroes of the Battle of Kohima, descendants of soldiers who fought in one of the WW-II’s crucial conflicts have embarked on a commemorative trek, retracing the footsteps of their forebears.

As part of this initiative, the star underwent DNA tests that unveiled the African origins of his forebears.

Generations ago my forebears were apparently kicked out of France.

Her Miami childhood is marked by hope and more opportunity than her forebears knew, as her parents work tirelessly to support her success.

Indeed, there is striking evidence that our paleo-anthropological forebears went through an aquatic phase, wading in the coastal waters.

Not only has the FPÖ not disavowed that past, it embraces it, at least in private, with the leading party figures regularly getting to trouble for paying quiet tribute to their Nazi forebears.

The extras were proud of playing their brave forebears, although it took a while before they themselves plucked up the courage to act out the attack on Rorke's Drift.

Well, I’m hoping that the book will first help us resist the initial twitch that I think we all tend to feel much more than our forebears did.

Like a Black(er) Sabbath, these doom-rock forebears helped launch a now-thriving subgenre in the late-’70s with their deliberately paced, riff-heavy repertoire.

Our Baptist forebears were persecuted for their dissent in Europe and the United States, and they knew the dangers of the unholy alignment of church and state.

Perhaps it’s appropriate, then, that the Maronites first modern saviors had crusading Frankish forebears.

This is a moment for serious action — to once again take up the mantle of the civil rights era by summoning the same conviction and determination our forebears did,” Mondainé wrote.

To what degree are you responsible for the mistakes of your forebears?