How to Use grandmother in a Sentence

grandmother

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  • My grandmother once told me that one day, there’s gonna be a day when the phone rings.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
  • My grandmother would eat fruit and throw the peel on the ground and cover it up with her feet.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • Boys mocked the polyester pants his grandmother sewed for him.
    — Madeleine Schwartz Soneela Nankani Tanya Pérez Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 14 May 2024
  • For the next 10 days, Nimer's grandmother says his parents feared the worst.
    — Rob Schmitz, NPR, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The grandmother of three was not charged in the accident.
    — Margaret Fleming, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Arty must save his grandmother from the darkness and bring light back to her house.
    — Athena Aktipis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • In the meantime, Masten was in the care of her mother and grandmother.
    — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024
  • My grandmother didn’t teach me to fill and braid this beloved pastry.
    — Emily Alben, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Renee Sanchez, the girl’s grandmother, loaded the girl into her car seat for a trip to the Phoenix Zoo.
    — Byeva Roytburg, Fortune, 20 June 2024
  • The toddler’s grandmother, 63-year-old Emma Wade, was pronounced dead at the scene of the wreck.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And during, a close friend read scripture from the bride’s late grandmother's Bible.
    — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Howard said the country buried the massacre – and stories like his grandmother’s – for years.
    — Omar Jimenez, CNN, 20 June 2023
  • No doubt many grandmothers will want to scold us, but the truth is, soap isn't going to destroy your cast iron pans.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Tate, a mother of four, grandmother of 16 and barely 5 feet tall, asked.
    — Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Coastal grandmother style is beachy and preppy, but laid back.
    — Vivi Smilgius, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The mother and a grandmother grabbed Mattie and Conrad.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 18 July 2023
  • What if a grandmother had a heart attack or a kid drowned while his team was on an overdose call?
    — Lauren Peace, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • My grandmother died the day the missionaries came for our souls.
    — Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • The story of a dying grandmother and one little boy—the son of the chief—became something of a legend among the Brulé.
    — Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Miller was raised by her grandmother and her mom, a single mother who gave birth to her at age 15.
    — Caitlin Brody, Glamour, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Thomas, a new grandmother, needs to get equipped to drive her granddaughter around.
    — Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 2 July 2024
  • The actress, born Mary Louise Streep, takes her first name from her mother and grandmother, both named Mary.
    — Francesca Pellegrini, Vogue, 22 June 2024
  • The teens, who used to have their own bedrooms, began sharing one to make room for their grandmother.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • For Mary, her grandmother’s illness was the thing still holding her back.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The baby looked on calmly from the arms of his grandmother, who arrived at the scene after the traffic stop.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
  • But the grandmother’s solely visual cameo may still ply misty from you.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 July 2023
  • The twins have already missed two years of school when their grandmother couldn’t pay the fees and their mother, struggling in the city, couldn't help either.
    — Aniruddha Ghosal, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Makiya stayed with her grandmother, but her grandma died when Makiya was 11.
    — The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • In August 1935, my grandmother Ida Goslar died in Berlin.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
  • Her mother was young and pretty, and Mimi, the grandmother, lived with them, too.
    — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024

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