granddad

Example Sentences

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The rain pours down so often that you can’t help but snort when the film cuts to Whitford’s granddad angrily watering his lawn.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

"I've got his name on my shorts, I'll be doing my granddad proud and I'll be there to represent him."

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

Michael Kitching suspects his granddad did not know about it because of the social shame.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

The new album’s closer, “Remember My Name,” is a brass-band love song “from the perspective of my granddad to my grandmother when she had dementia and he was looking after her,” the singer said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

Maybe he’d gotten his optimism from his granddad Clive Marlowe.

From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis