granddaddy

Example Sentences

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I thought back to how Black grandmas and granddaddies filled the American streets in the 1960s, with Bibles in their hands, their brown and dark faces determined to be free.

From Washington Post

“These aren’t your granddaddy’s endorsements” of appearing on billboards or making public appearances, Lawrence said.

From New York Times

You may have heard that Bitcoin, the granddaddy of crypto, is “mined” by power-gobbling supercomputers, a process that verges on the utterly incomprehensible.

From New York Times

She normally attends two a year, including the granddaddy of them all, Glastonbury.

From BBC

“The kids called him Graggie,” because they could not say “granddaddy,” Ms. Fitch said.

From New York Times