granddaddy

Example Sentences

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More than 500 of the stones came from the granddaddy pedestal of them all, the 40-foot tower that once supported the figure of Gen. Robert E. Lee.

From Washington Post

Viewers reached out by the thousands to say "Dirty Jobs" was the granddaddy of essential working shows, and essential work is now headline news.

From Fox News

“This beat sound like a b---- granddaddy just died!”

From Washington Post

I bring you glad tidings, and also the only correct interpretation of the granddaddy of all Christmas classics, which every American must, by law, catch a snippet of each holiday season.

From Washington Post

Said Bill: “It was the great great great granddaddy of all the modems we’re using now.”

From Washington Post