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, 2018-03-07
  • Among the book’s great characters are Dwayne’s foremothers.
    — Kate Tuttle, Twin Cities, 2019-10-20
  • And without the stories of our foremothers, women have no models to follow.
    — Ruth Franklin, Harper's Magazine, 2020-05-25
  • But that doesn’t mean the holiday’s foremothers would find the festivities up to snuff.
    — Ruth Graham, Slate Magazine, 2017-03-06
  • Through these tributes, the helping hands of our foremothers are reaching out with a grip that could throttle the patriarchy.
    — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2018-03-21
  • The show develops into a feminist pageant, honoring our foremothers in the good fight for equal rights.
    — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 2017-10-04
  • 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, 2018-04-12
  • 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, 2017-04-25
  • Kamala Harris represents the living embodiment of the dreams of my foremother.
    — Glamour, 2021-03-12
  • 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, 2018-04-06
  • 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, 2018-05-14
  • 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, 2020-04-07
  • Ford borrows from her literary foremother Zora Neale Hurston — especially Hurston’s juxtaposition of happiness to intimacy with the sun.
    — Darryl Robertson, USA TODAY, 2021-05-31

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