granddad

Example Sentences

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And in fulfilling a dream they both had, the music-loving granddad has returned from Tinseltown a star in his own right.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

"My granddad who got me into the sport sadly passed away a few months ago," said Jones.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

"My granddad was a train driver," she tells me, adding: "I'm really proud of what we're intending to do."

From BBC • May 23, 2025

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

The farms, like the seven-hundred-acre one that Reggie’s maternal granddad, Wilford, once tended, grew beets, mostly, and corn and wheat.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel