granddad

Example Sentences

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The rain pours down so often that you can’t help but snort when the film cuts to Whitford’s granddad angrily watering his lawn.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

Michael Kitching suspects his granddad did not know about it because of the social shame.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

The new album’s closer, “Remember My Name,” is a brass-band love song “from the perspective of my granddad to my grandmother when she had dementia and he was looking after her,” the singer said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

Ray says he feels "lucky" to have had access to the drug via the NHS, especially now he is a granddad to Willow.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2025

As we watch people line up and begin to mount the steps to the stage, I feel like one of the cows in the agricultural show my granddad took me to in Kinvara.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline