foremother
Example Sentences
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Like its foremother, “Twilight,” “The In Between” depicts a pedantic girl in a supernatural world who’s willing to die for her boyfriend.
From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2022
Even today, many in the country of 12 million know little about their foremother.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2021
I also found the reboot too glossy, too chic, and rather boring when compared with its foremother.
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2020
“She’s a pioneering performance artist and poet, a mystic, a feminist foremother for a whole generation of women artists and writers.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2020
And as the heat of the room ebbed away, he told of her foremother and of his, and of the sturdy Welse who fought the great lone fight, and died, fighting, at Treasure City.
From A Daughter of the Snows by London, Jack
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
