forbear

Example Sentences

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If the real Queen Charlotte could claim any African cultural lineage, it would have come from a distant Portuguese forbear.

From Salon

The area houses thousands of Palestinian exiles whose forbears fled there during the wars surrounding the founding of Israel in 1948.

From New York Times

Katie would forbear from showing her right side; Hubbell would forbear from admitting, as an early draft had him do, that he wasn’t always great in the sack.

From Washington Post

Puritan colonists in Massachusetts did the same, fining "whosoever shall be found observing Christmas or the like, either by forbearing of labor, feasting, or any other way."

From Salon

Tammy, meanwhile, mostly suffers and forbears, and that’s where the show, as if taking its cue from the duo’s unapologetically melodramatic ballads, digs in.

From New York Times