grandmother

Example Sentences

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Felix Puelm, a 42-year-old history professor, told AFP that he discovered his now-deceased grandmother had joined the Nazis in 1940 when she was 19.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

“It somehow felt like it was upper-class,” Nana, my paternal grandmother, recently told me.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

About her life “as a teacher, as a grandmother, as first lady.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Netsi's mother died when she was young, and she was raised by her grandmother and great-grandmother on the farm where she had to "grow up fast".

From BBC • May 31, 2026

‘I think it’s a letter to my grandmother – and her sister?’

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler