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Example sentences for: grandfather

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

His grandfather, Egor, was a slave.
By marrying his daughters to sons of the reigning emperor and then engineering timely abdications, a Fujiwara contrived always to be father-in-law, uncle, or grandfather behind the throne.
At the U.S. Naval Academy, McCain the youngest followed in his grandfather's and father's rascally steps by performing poorly as a student and chafing under the hazing that "plebes" were expected to accept.
The affected sister and brother inherit different FEOM1 haplotypes from their affected mother, and the brother's affected daughter inherits her unaffected paternal grandfather's FEOM1 haplotype, thus proving non-association between the FEOM1 haplotype and the disease phenotype.
I would like to say Tolly was working for evil, my grandfather for good, but I don't know if it's that simple."