How to Use grandparent in a Sentence

grandparent

noun
  • In some ways, grandparents have the best of both worlds.
    Contributing Writer, Orange County Register, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The app that helped create the idea of video chats with grandparents is still in the game.
    Houston Chronicle, 25 May 2020
  • Her grandparents are in their 80s and 90s and live in Venezuela.
    Nbc News, NBC news, 9 June 2025
  • There is no love like the love of a grandparent for a grandchild.
    Tracy Smith, CBS News, 29 May 2021
  • In short: The milder summers of our parents and grandparents are a thing of the past.
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 19 June 2024
  • Lived with my great grandparents for two and a half years.
    CBS News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • But Evans, who was 13 when the movie was filmed, lives in his grandparents’ house now.
    Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • There is a sycamore in the front yard of my grandparents’ house, the house where my father grew up.
    Ryan Bradley, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • All of our grandparents on both sides came to San Diego from the Philippines through the Navy.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Both his grandparents are over 70 and not in great health.
    Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • When the toddler woke up in his grandparents’ room on Wednesday, the smell of smoke hung in the air.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2025
  • It’s not the same as grieving the loss of a parent or grandparent.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Maybe there's something down the line – 10 years from now – where the kids are all grown, and John and Nia are grandparents.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • That could be a spouse, that could be a parent, that could be a grandparent.
    Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2020
  • That's right -- your grandparents might've beat you to the cute kitty craze.
    Scottie Andrew and Marnie Hunter, CNN, 29 Oct. 2019
  • A lot of them did not know her, but their parents and grandparents did.
    Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 1 Apr. 2024
  • This is not your grandparent’s movie theatre sitting in the car at the drive-in.
    David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 12 Sep. 2020
  • In this case, the closest match shared a great-great-grandparent with the victim.
    New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
  • The charges stem from a shooting in the grandparents' Garfield Township, Mich., home on April 1.
    Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
  • Looking for a unique gift for that hard to buy for grandparent?
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Heck, give one to a new grandparent who last taught reading in the era of flashcards and gold stars.
    Wendy Fawthrop, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • His grandparents, both 74, still farm; each gets a pension of less than $15 a month.
    Li Yuan, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Harris told the media outlet that the same garage was struck by a train in the late 1970s when her grandparents lived in the home.
    Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024
  • In Oregon, grandparents have been forced to cope in unique ways.
    The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2020
  • My grandparents walked the same fields, hunted with the same dogs, listened to the same legends.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 20 May 2025
  • And my mom was very proud and his other grandparents [were too].
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
  • And my mom was very proud, and his other grandparents [were too].
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 9 Feb. 2025
  • In the early 1980s, my grandparents divorced and sold their house.
    Pat Kapowich, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2024
  • With robotaxis, more teenagers may arrive home safely and more grandparents may set out on the adventure of a lifetime.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 June 2025
  • And to a collective—of parents and grandparents and ancestors and olive groves and hillsides that endured and perished or endured and survived and passed on their memories and practices and language to me, to us.
    Cindy Juyoung Ok june 26, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025

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