grandmother

Example Sentences

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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

And they are sentimental to her, because she uses her grandmother’s recipe.

From Los Angeles Times

It reminded me of my grandmother, who when I pointed a video camera at her for the first time, she didn’t move because she was thinking I was taking a photo of her.

From Los Angeles Times

Glenn said her performance had been inspired by the memory of her grandmother Barbara, who passed away in February last year.

From Barron's

She notes that her grandmother “left everything to do with her Jewish past out of her memoirs.”

From The Wall Street Journal