papa

Example Sentences

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‘You’ve got to take care of mama bear and papa bear first.’

From MarketWatch • Dec. 16, 2025

When Gustav swaggers back into the daughters’ lives to play the cheery grandfather and beloved papa, both are skeptical.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

To me, and everyone else in my family, he’s always been papa.

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025

The IT engineer revealed Monzo only stopped when their four-year-old daughter started crying and said "mama" and "papa".

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025

Ella's papa used to tell her that life was a massive and intricate clockwork gear—a mechanism of cogs and springs and cams charged with a purpose, each element having to do its part.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton