grandfather
Example Sentences
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Which is what his father had said, and his grandfather before that.
From Literature
My parents built the house on land that had been owned by my grandfather, a town doctor.
As a child, he watched his father and grandfather spending hours riding their tractor to sow seeds and spray crops.
From BBC
Some of the machines, he says, “are older than grandfathers.”
The unlit house was silent except for the ticking of a grandfather clock somewhere on the first floor.
From Literature
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