grandmother

Example Sentences

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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

Tracing the lives of three “daughters of China”—the author, her mother and her grandmother—the book illuminated 20th-century Chinese history in a way that was at once thrilling and alarming.

From The Wall Street Journal

But when she puts it on — and she can put it on — she always considers her grandmother’s fashion big three: quality, color and taste.

From Los Angeles Times

A no-spend week nudges me toward living out that old Depression-era saying my grandmother liked enough to have embroidered on a pillow: Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

From Salon