Example sentences for: grandmothers

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

  • The LAT stuffs the story but fronts a two-column photo of Elian's two grandmothers in New York upon their arrival from Cuba to ask for the return of their grandson.

  • Contemporary Chicanas continuously look toward Guadalupe and reevaluate her influence in their mothers’ and grandmothers’ lives and in their own lives.

  • If you're going to cook Italian, you'd best get the works of Marcella Hazan, or else a food anthropologist who has interviewed all the grandmothers in Italy and discovered the best liver-and-grappa pasta sauce to be found north of the Arno.

  • Then there's the added insult to untreated ER waiting-room injury of having to watch these Satanic sentimental TV spots for various HMOs, featuring grainy handheld pseudo-documentary sepia-tone footage of some hypothetical multi-ethnic customer base (elderly black grandmothers on rocking chairs with blankets draped over their knees and beaming Asian-American 6-year-olds on swing sets always seem to make an appearance) while muted piano music plays and some studio-musician faux-gospel vocalist breathily intones the company slogan/musical sound bite, informing us all "(Insert Name of HMO here) ...

  • Children, especially boys, are seen as a blessing and are treated with indulgence, fussed over by mothers and grandmothers.


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