Example sentences for: granddaughter

How can you use “granddaughter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Branches were soon opened in London and New York by Louis-François' sons to serve Victorian magnates on both sides of the Atlantic, and eventually a Cartier grandson married the granddaughter of Worth, the world famous couturier , as if to consolidate the whole international luxury-goods network.

  • Somewhere, a grandmother couldn't afford to call her granddaughter, or a child went without a book, or a family couldn't afford that first home because there was just not enough money.

  • Presidential historian Stephen Ambrose begins his NewsHour appearance by inveighing against evening newscasts too smutty to watch with his 12-year-old granddaughter.

  • Both sides of this lifetime correspondence are now in the possession of his granddaughter, Miss K. M. E. Murray, who has made arrangements in her will to bequeath them to the Bodleian.

  • Greeting the news of her granddaughter's first menses, she blurts, "Mazel tov !" and then slaps the child--a tradition evidently meant to celebrate the beginning of reproductive life, while reinforcing a girl's sense of shame over the fact that she's now "unclean."


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