granddad
Example Sentences
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"My granddad was a train driver," she tells me, adding: "I'm really proud of what we're intending to do."
From BBC • May 23, 2025
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
The birth of his first child has apparently given Shohei Ohtani granddad strength.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2025
"My granny and granddad came down from Bellshill, which is a mining community outside Glasgow. They never lost their accent because you're in amongst it, you know?"
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2025
“Oh, that random white dude that used to roll with your granddad? I didn’t see a lot of him, but I remember meeting him once or twice.”
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.