Example Sentences

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And I tell young people to go home and hug their grandma and grandpap.

From Time Magazine Archive

“My mama cuts all our hair. My daddy and my grandpap and me. She cuts it all the same.”

From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo

And this satin jacket Aunt Maria said my grandpap wore at his wedding; it has a silver buckle at the neck in front.

From Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' by Groce, Helen Mason

"Thar's a leetle child what needs my help, an' I've got ter take keer of her fer er while, grandpap," Smiles said at once.

From 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands by Taylor, H. Weston

There, near the fort, where grandpap lives, lives young Ben Logan.

From The Red Moccasins A Story by Heady, Morrison