How to Use forbear in a Sentence

forbear

noun
  • But new research suggests that our forbears had more varied and cosmopolitan tastes, centuries before the Guide Michelin.
    — Scott Simon, NPR, 14 Mar. 2026
  • One wistful way to follow Redford’s career is to trace the paths not taken, and to set them beside the adventurous ones pursued by his contemporaries and forbears.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
  • While not the biggest change from its forbear, the 40 Series face would go on to become iconic, its round headlights within a white grille surround defining the model in the public’s eye.
    — Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Absent the lush melancholy of classic synth-pop, what Hervé and Amato had in common with their forbears was a spirit of innovation rooted in profound laziness.
    — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 23 May 2026
  • There is plenty about Norris to make fun of, but I’d be thrilled if today’s MAGA bros honored their forbears and were slightly less histrionic.
    — John Devore, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Eight Dukes of Wellington and two very full centuries on from that 1825 procession, on this June 16, the 9th Duke rode, as each of his forbears did and as the future heirs to the ducal title will do, in the lead carriage with the king to open Royal Ascot.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • My forbears fought for American values in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, on the side of the Union in the Civil War, in the Spanish-American War, in World Wars I and II and the Korean War.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 20 Feb. 2026

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