grandmother

Example Sentences

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“My grandmother would take me for a walk, and we’d stop into the butcher and the international grocery,” See said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

In it, Aadhya carefully feeds her grandmother a morsel of food.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

My grandmother and my father, though they disliked each other.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Felix Puelm, a 42-year-old history professor, told AFP that he discovered his now-deceased grandmother had joined the Nazis in 1940 when she was 19.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

The bell chimed and the gnomes ran through the village shouting, “Elsbith, grandmother of Rump, has gone the way of all the earth!”

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff