grandmother

Example Sentences

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“I found so many letters between my grandfather and my grandmother and I think they truly loved each other, and I think they truly loved that woman, too.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

My grandmother and my father, though they disliked each other.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Felix Puelm, a 42-year-old history professor, told AFP that he discovered his now-deceased grandmother had joined the Nazis in 1940 when she was 19.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

“It somehow felt like it was upper-class,” Nana, my paternal grandmother, recently told me.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

Earlier that morning, Maya-Jade had been complaining about the boy to Vivian, rather theatrically, dramatic flair being something she’d inherited from her diva grandmother.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman