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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:

During the summer in the country, my grandfather would put on his hat to go down to the end of the driveway and get the letters out of the mailbox.
A young woman remembers, “My grandfather used to tell us when we were little, about La Mano Negra, that appeared every time little kids were bad and that if we weren’t good and helped him carry in wood and water and feed the animals ‘la mano negra’ would come for us at night.
This also once was true of Jews (why do you think my grandfather become a doctor?)
Chatterbox's maternal grandfather worked for a company that supplied the bronze used in its handsome spandrels, mullions, and I-beams.
Unlike the mother, however, the son can and did flee into his books and beyond--to the pastoral beauty of his grandfather's farm, for one, and toward his future.