How to Use forefather in a Sentence

forefather

noun

• The RAV4′s forefather was the iconic Prius, which put hybrids on the map.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 13 Feb. 2021
• Here in the land our forefathers ached for, all of our hopes will be fulfilled.
  — Gal Koplewitz, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2019
• Our forefathers — the people in front of us — were smart enough to set aside money for things like this.
  — Peter Marteka, Courant Community, 8 June 2017
• He is viewed as a forefather of the civil rights movement.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 17 Dec. 2020
• Cast me out in honor of the toil and tribulation of our forefathers.
  — David Means, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
• Among his forefathers, his wife said, was William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army.
  — Emily Langer, The Denver Post, 2 June 2017
• The things our forefathers stood for are now being taken away from us.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2017
• The white rappers did their homework and were reverent of their Black forefathers in the genre.
  — Hazlitt, 25 May 2023
• That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.
  — Ken Denmead, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2012
• Land theft and human plunder cleared the grounds for Trump’s forefathers and barred others from it.
  — Matt Thompson, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
• Our forefather, Maklouf, and his grown sons were among them, but his wife, whose name has been lost to time, fled the village with her baby boy.
  — Saki Knafo, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2023
• Jews who made it through the horror were the ones with the moral authority to teach young Germans about the perils of anti-Semitism and the crimes of their forefathers.
  — Kirsten Grieshaber, Fox News, 29 July 2018
• Today, the result is a Bottrop that few of the city's coal-mining forefathers could have imagined.
  — Valerie Hamilton, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
• The 24-year-old grew up knowing exactly what his forefather stood for.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 5 Sep. 2017
• If that’s cause for eviction, our forefathers might never have sat in the same room together.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2018
• And unlike its forefather, this reincarnation of the Marquis de Sade won’t be so easy to lock away.
  — WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023
• But for three months a year, El Guran and the other herders live as their forefathers have for generations.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2018
• Our forefathers and foremothers–those so fortunate as to come here by choice–did so to build a better life.
  — Carly Fiorina, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
• Blow shot to superstardom as a forefather of hip-hop during the genre’s early days.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 9 Dec. 2020
• But Mr Kapami is wrong about his forefathers, or at least, his distant ones.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• The forefather's monument had been cleaned along with the four scallop shells, town officials said in a Facebook post.
  — Fox News, 18 Feb. 2020
• Let’s be as bold and ambitious as our forefathers before us.
  — Charles V. Bagli and Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2016
• Perhaps ekev reminds us of our forefather, Ya’akov (Jacob) who was so named because he was born holding the heel of his brother Esav (Esau).
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• Boissonnault told the story of his forefathers, who first landed in Canada in 1642.
  — Alan Gomez, USA TODAY, 8 June 2018
• And Abraham, Christ's earthly forefather, was willing to sacrifice his own son to please God.
  — Will Nevin, AL.com, 10 Oct. 2017
• The famous dancing hot dog was born earlier this year and rose to prominence on the internet via Snapchat, much in the way of his lil ghost forefather and his great-uncle Face Swap.
  — Tess Koman, Cosmopolitan, 19 Oct. 2017
• The old-school Mafiosi are fading into the past, pale imitations of their pharaonic forefathers.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 May 2017
• An original Panther and the forefather of our franchise, Mr. Torrey had a champion’s spirit and lived for the game.
  — Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 May 2018
• That conflict pitted Cairo’s modern Army against determined tribesmen, the forefathers of the Houthis, who resented the intrusion of a foreign power and wanted a return to the imamate.
  — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
• Gone are the manly traits of our forefathers: stoicism, reliability, strength, and dignity.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024