Example sentences for: grandparents

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

  • parents, grandparents and great-grandparents Parents, grandparents, greatgrandparents and aunts (In re Custody of D.M.M.

  • The Washington Post reported Feb. 4 that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's parents were Jewish converts to Catholicism and that her grandparents died in the Holocaust.

  • Throw in a couple of well- intentioned, overbearing grandparents, tearful reminiscing about the poet- waiter's dead sister, and repeated shots of characters gazing soulfully out at the Pacific, and you've got the makings of a movie so overwrought it should only be shown on Lifetime.

  • Because the major influx of Mexican immigration into the United States was during the Mexican Revolution, many Chicanos and Chicanas grew up hearing stories about soldaderas and La Adelita from relatives, parents, and grandparents.

  • The front pages of the NYT , LAT , and WP make plenty of room for Madeleine Albright's trip to the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague where for the first time, she saw the names of her paternal grandparents in an inscribed list of Holocaust victims.


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