grandmother

Example Sentences

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My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, and my grandmother was diagnosed around a decade earlier.

From Los Angeles Times

His grandmother gestured to the bandage across his face.

From BBC

When I hear the word potluck, I am transported, with a kind of olfactory immediacy, to the basement of my grandmother’s church.

From Salon

Walking from my parking spot, I buy cilantro and two star fruits from a bundled-up grandmother eating from her own supply of sticky corn.

From Los Angeles Times

“It started with my grandmother, who passed away, then it was handed to my mother, who’s now very ill, then to me.”

From Los Angeles Times