Example sentences for: grandson

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

  • His son might be a Johnson , his grandson a Large because he happened to be a generous fellow.

  • The WP fronts and the NYT stuffs the continuing saga of Elian Gonzalez, whose two grandmothers met with Attorney General Janet Reno yesterday to lobby for the return of their grandson to Cuba.

  • Herbert Coleridge, the first editor of the Philological Society's dictionary, was not the poet's grandson; Elisabeth Murray's biography was only taken on by Oxford after Yale University Press had turned it into a bestseller and shamed OUP into publishing it (OUP having earlier rejected it as unworthy).

  • Five centuries later, Japan’s own Kojiki and Nihon-shoki chronicles describe the creation of the imperial dynasty in the year 660 b.c. : the first emperor, Jimmu (“Divine Warrior”) — great grandson of the Sun Goddess’s grandson — embarked on an expedition of conquest from Kyushu along the Inland Sea coast to the Yamato plain of the Kinki region (near modern-day Nara).

  • Franco named as his successor the grandson of Alfonso XIII, who was enthroned as King Juan Carlos I when the dictator died in 1975.


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