grandmother

Example Sentences

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Mother’s grandmother was a midwife, and Mother watched her deliver babies, so she knows what to do.

From Literature

"When you hear that news, the best way I could possibly describe it - you can't breathe, you physically can't breathe," said her grandmother Judith Rice.

From BBC

Daniela Vazquez arrived at 7:15 at the complex that morning to drop off clothes for her child, who was staying with their grandmother, a resident of the complex.

From Los Angeles Times

Storyteller Sakae Manning was familiar with Altadena before she and her husband moved there 35 years ago — his family had history in west Altadena and his maternal grandmother had lived there for a while.

From Los Angeles Times

Tkhoryk recalled the words of her grandmother who survived first a Soviet-imposed famine that killed millions in Ukraine in the 1930s and then World War II.

From The Wall Street Journal