grandfather
Example Sentences
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Around the end of the 1930s, Randy Bierlein’s grandfather first started selling Chrysler vehicles out of his family’s dealership in northern Michigan.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
She relocated to the country of her birth in the early 1960s with my grandfather, José Miranda, after frost and drought ruined the family farm in their hometown of El Cargadero.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
"My grandfather started this, then my father, and now it's my turn," the 49-year-old said.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Her grandfather - Dudley Herschbach – won a Nobel Prize in chemistry.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
Back then, it’d been because of losing her grandfather.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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