How to Use "forebear" with Example Sentences

1. Tony vicars , a butcher in west street since 1972 ( his forebear opened the shop in 1866 ) sees only " shoe shops and mobile-phone stores " around him .

2. Although it was a good deal plusher than its rather utilitarian forebear , fiat ?

3. " Ancestor : a person from whom one is descended , especially if more remote than a grandparent ; a forebear . "

4. He knows himself to be perfectly secure , but , still , he " cannot forebear trembling . "

5. Nothing suggests that the british public has been overwhelmingly struck by the judiciary 's new independence , but , for the curious citizen , the supreme court is a distinct improvement on its murky forebear .