grandmother

Example Sentences

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When he was 19, his grandmother died and left him a small inheritance which he used to fund a trip to Madagascar, having seen Sir David's programme about the African island.

From BBC

“I look at making a Bloody Mary the same way my Italian grandmother used to look at making Sunday sauce,” Caporale explains.

From Salon

As a child, he travelled several times to Nador to visit his grandmother and cousins.

From BBC

When he stopped coming for a while to care for my ailing grandmother, the staff told him how much he’d been missed and later gave him a sympathy card signed by everyone.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dantzler said her grandmother — who died the night before at a hospital — was a fixture in the area for decades, known for doting on the neighborhood’s children as though they were her own.

From Los Angeles Times