Example sentences for: granddaughter

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

  • Her great granddaughter, Miss Stuart of Allan Bank, married the late Mr. Thomas Coutts's father, and brought him four sons--Peter, John, James, and Thomas.

  • Look at that list, and consider how utterly shameless Dole was in imagining a grandmother who couldn't afford to call her granddaughter because she pays too much in taxes.

  • 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."

  • Weld comes from wealthy, pure WASP stock and married a great granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt.

  • 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.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast