grandmother

Example Sentences

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My son is buying his first home, and his grandmother, aunt and I are giving him $20,000 for the down payment.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

"But I remember my grandmother and great aunt were so proud of Cornwall and everything to do with Cornwall, yet until they were teenagers they'd spent their whole lives in Mexico in Pachuca."

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

It also served some of the region’s more unique specialties, such as clam cakes from a recipe hand-written by his grandmother found on the back of a fish-shop receipt.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

But I cry now—for the first time in years—in the underground corridor of the Ghanaian underworld, all while the ancestral spirit of my grandmother protects me from a trickster god.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer