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

"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

Ray says he feels "lucky" to have had access to the drug via the NHS, especially now he is a granddad to Willow.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2025

“But you and Vernon and my granddad were all close. What was it all about?”

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older