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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:

On Nov. 4, 1994, Coia received a handwritten note from Clinton thanking him for a "gorgeous" custom-made golf club and congratulating him on becoming a grandfather.
Other languages, often regarded as more "primitive" than English, have highly evolved vocabularies for denoting family relationships, so that a single word can denote, say, one's maternal grandfather's sister.
The 1951 Festival of Britain (organized by the grandfather of the Labor minister now in charge of the Millennium Dome) still represented a culturally homogenous, industrial country.
Biden grew up in a white-collar suburb, his father was a car salesman, one grandfather was a state senator, and the only Biden on record as having worked near a mine was a mining engineer.
Family history was significant for Hashimoto's thyroiditis in the mother, maternal aunt, and maternal grandfather.