grandmother
Example Sentences
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Mia says she first got a taste for embroidery aged six when her stern Swedish grandmother, Greta, gave her some sewing to do "when I might have been naughty".
From BBC
A tearful Redknapp, who recalled last week how his grandmother used to run bets for a bookmaker when gambling was illegal, earned a big kiss from his wife Sandra.
From Barron's
Her book is also filled with the unpublished notes and unfinished research of her beloved grandmother, an anthropologist who documented several of the festivals Ms. MeLampy writes about.
The main reason Mr. Fantasy has suddenly appeared on the scene is to introduce his music to the masses — a career move he credits to his late grandmother.
From Salon
She picked Gita Kaur, whose grandmother had kept Gita virtually cloistered in the family house in Nairobi until she was 19.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
