How to Use foremother in a Sentence

foremother

noun

• Listen to them talk about movement and messages with some of the foremothers in activism.
  — Colleen Kratofil, PEOPLE.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Among the book’s great characters are Dwayne’s foremothers.
  — Kate Tuttle, Twin Cities, 20 Oct. 2019
• But that doesn’t mean the holiday’s foremothers would find the festivities up to snuff.
  — Ruth Graham, Slate Magazine, 6 Mar. 2017
• Through these tributes, the helping hands of our foremothers are reaching out with a grip that could throttle the patriarchy.
  — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• And without the stories of our foremothers, women have no models to follow.
  — Ruth Franklin, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
• In this season, when some want to harden and stop the heart of our democracy, we are being called like our foremothers and -fathers to be the moral defibrillator of our time.
  — Tommy Tomlinson, Esquire, 25 Apr. 2017
• The show develops into a feminist pageant, honoring our foremothers in the good fight for equal rights.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 4 Oct. 2017
• Through our hair and its many rituals, remain the herbalism of our foremothers in the new world, passing down their ingenuity of homemade balms, creams, and oils for hair growth.
  — Eshe Ukweli, refinery29.com, 4 May 2023
• Of course, for our foremothers, who were required to be trussed up in this undergarment from dawn until dusk, the corset functioned as a sartorial prison cell.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2018
• Kamala Harris represents the living embodiment of the dreams of my foremother.
  — Glamour, 12 Mar. 2021
• Many of our foremothers and forefathers embraced the brilliant outdoor lifestyle SoCal offered, and have left us with gardens, historic structures with sprawling grounds, and beaches that can’t be beat.
  — Hadley Meares, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 May 2018
• She's made issues our foremothers fought in vain to bring to popular attention into an easy part of our national vocabulary, all the while causing us to spit milk from our noses with giddy laughter.
  — Lena Dunham For Lenny Letter, Esquire, 2 Sep. 2016
• At the same time, Dean respects her literary foremothers enough to examine the foibles, difficulties and weaknesses underneath those fearsome personas.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2018
• In our own moment of global catastrophe, Wade offers us a timely invitation to join our literary foremothers in their rebellious journeys to achieve creative freedom and world harmony.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• De Burgos, a literary foremother of the Nuyorican movement, defied societal norms and advocated for the island’s independence.
  — New York Times, 28 May 2018
• All exist on history’s fringes, not forefathers or foremothers but frustrated artists, defeated revolutionaries, monks, nuns, eccentric balloonists and social deviants.
  — Julian Lucas, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024