grandmother

Example Sentences

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Seventeen years later, she was diagnosed with leukaemia, in a family where her grandmother, mother and aunt already suffered from thyroid cancer.

From Barron's

“My grandmother used to tell me stories about polar bears,” George said.

From Literature

This was like talking long distance to my grandmother without her hearing aid, and—just like my grandmother—Miss Kemp didn’t try to pin it down.

From Literature

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