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Father in sentence

5833 examples of Father in a sentence

I am not my father.
My grandfather didn't get to see Nike printing cleats for the recent Super Bowl, and my father didn't get to see me standing in my hybridized 3D printed shoes.
Today, a baffled lady observed the shell where my soul dwells And announced that I'm "articulate" Which means that when it comes to enunciation and diction I don't even think of it ‘Cause I’m "articulate" So when my professor asks a question And my answer is tainted with a connotation of urbanized suggestion There’s no misdirected intention Pay attention ‘Cause I’m “articulate” So when my father asks, “Wha’ kinda ting is dis?” My “articulate” answer never goes amiss I say “father, this is the impending problem at hand” And when I’m on the block I switch it up just because I can So when my boy says, “What’s good with you son?”
For 19 years, my father stood by my side with an unshakable faith, because he believed that I had what it took to turn my life around.
I was about to become a father for the first time.
My father had passed away, and I never had a chance to tell him I loved him.
My father was a San Franciscan.
My father answered it, and the soldiers ordered us out of our home.
My father gave my brother and me small luggages to carry, and we walked out and stood on the driveway waiting for our mother to come out, and when my mother finally came out, she had our baby sister in one arm, a huge duffel bag in the other, and tears were streaming down both her cheeks.
It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower.
And so I engaged my father after dinner in long, sometimes heated conversations.
We had many, many conversations like that, and what I got from them was my father's wisdom.
They are my heroes and my father is my hero, who understood democracy and guided me through it.
Could I protect my father from the Armed Islamic Group with a paring knife?
My father's university teaching of Darwin had already provoked a classroom visit from the head of the so-called Islamic Salvation Front, who denounced Dad as an advocate of biologism before Dad had ejected the man, and now whoever was outside would neither identify himself nor go away.
So my father tried to get the police on the phone, but perhaps terrified by the rising tide of armed extremism that had already claimed the lives of so many Algerian officers, they didn't even answer.
I think it was actually that moment that sent me on the journey to interview 300 people of Muslim heritage from nearly 30 countries, from Afghanistan to Mali, to find out how they fought fundamentalism peacefully like my father did, and how they coped with the attendant risks.
Finally, my father, an Algerian peasant's son turned professor, was forced to stop teaching at the university and to flee his apartment, but what I will never forget about Mahfoud Bennoune, my dad, was that like so many other Algerian intellectuals, he refused to leave the country and he continued to publish pointed criticisms, both of the fundamentalists and sometimes of the government they battled.
My father's country taught me in that dark decade of the 1990s that the popular struggle against Muslim fundamentalism is one of the most important and overlooked human rights struggles in the world.
Faizan Peerzada and the Rafi Peer Theatre workshop named for his father have for years promoted the performing arts in Pakistan.
You and father must keep your heads held high."
Harry Kelvin was his name, my mother's father.
My temperature was a sizzling 97.8 degrees as I stared into your father's eyes.
I come from a family of missionaries who built hospitals in Indonesia, and my father built a psychiatric hospital in Tanzania.
Charles Darwin's father once told him that everybody could lose their mind at some point.
Steven Weinberg, the father of the standard model of particle physics, has actually flirted with this idea himself, that all possible realities actually exist.
He’s a particularly promising student, but he was admitted to study because Peseshet is a scribe, as was her father before her.
This is my father, Clinton George "Bageye" Grant.
And so for many years, I feared that my father would die before I had a chance to kill him.
We were to be below the radar, so there was no communication, really, between Bageye and us and us and Bageye, and the sound that we most looked forward to, you know when you're a child and you want your father to come home and it's all going to be happy and you're waiting for that sound of the door opening.
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