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Another traditional usefulness of older people is that they are capable of babysitting their grandchildren, thereby freeing up their own adult children, the parents of those grandchildren, to go hunting and gathering food for the
grandchildren.
One value of older people is that they are increasingly useful as grandparents for offering high-quality childcare to their grandchildren, if they choose to do it, as more young women enter the workforce and as fewer young parents of either gender stay home as full-time caretakers of their children.
They usually love their grandchildren, and are eager to spend time with them.
Otherwise, how else do we tell our
grandchildren
that your grandparents sat in that room in neat little rows like cornstalks and watched this professor at the end talk about content and, you know, you didn't even have a rewind button?
And today, there's a handful of the great, great
grandchildren
of these early Cold War machines which are now operated by private companies and from which the vast majority of satellite imagery that you and I see on a daily basis comes.
RNG: When our great
grandchildren
look back at us, will they be as appalled by some of our practices as we are by our slave-owning, heretic-burning, wife-beating, gay-bashing ancestors?
So for patients like Mama Wangari, who have been blind for over 10 years and never seen her grandchildren, for less than 40 dollars, we can restore her eyesight.
And she said, "Yes, because he has a beautiful daughter and two beautiful grandchildren, and he doesn't know that, and I do.
And if that wasn’t enough, he assumed the consul position twice more to promote his
grandchildren.
Now people recognize me in Macy's, and my
grandchildren
think that I'm cool.
He was a puckish widower whose wife and children were dead and whose
grandchildren
lived far away.
Are we going to look our
grandchildren
in the eye and tell them that we understood the issues, that we recognized the dangers and the opportunities, and still we failed to act?
As I placed the defibrillator pads on his chest, prepping for what was going to happen, he looked me in the eye and said, "I wish I had spent more time with my children and
grandchildren
instead of being selfish with my time."
and my
grandchildren
and everyone else will.
I just want to portray them in a way that their
grandchildren
are going to look at their grandfather, and they're going to be like, "Whoa, my grandfather is as cool as Beyoncé."
But one thing I know: One day, in a few decades, when our
grandchildren
surf the Net just by thinking, or a mother donates her eyesight to an autistic kid who cannot see, or somebody speaks because of a brain-to-brain bypass, some of you will remember that it all started on a winter afternoon in a Brazilian soccer field with an impossible kick.
Here it is, 53 years later, I now have nine grandchildren, two great-grandchildren.
Five of the
grandchildren
are boys.
Because I think history convenes a tribunal of our
grandchildren
and they just ask us, "Grandma, Grandpa, where were you?
Likewise, when our
grandchildren
ask us, "Grandma, Grandpa, where were you when two billion of the world's poorest were drowning in a lawless chaos of everyday violence?"
Well, at the time, neither of us were very good on the computer, so usually, if we needed help with the Internet, we would just call our children or our grandchildren, but obviously, in this case, that wasn't an option, so I thought, I'll have a look myself, just to see.
I have 12 grandchildren, four children, and 10 great-grandchildren, and I think often about them and about the plight that they will face in America, not only if they lived in Egypt or a foreign country, in having equal rights, and I hope that all of you will join me in being a champion for women and girls around the world and protect their human rights.
And I have five
grandchildren
now, I feel very happy as an Irish grandmother to have five grandchildren, and I think about their world, and what it will be like when they will share that world with about 9 billion other people in 2050.
And that won't happen unless we have the momentum from people around the world who say: "We want action now, we want to change course, we want a safe world, a safe world for future generations, a safe world for our children and our grandchildren, and we're all in this together."
I have 12 grandchildren, at least.
Every day I see my grandchildren, about the same age as these young girls, and I do wonder, and I get angry sometimes, yes I do.
And let's do it for our children and our
grandchildren
and let's tell them this is the system that they have to take care of in the future because it's our last chance to create a new kind of water system.
And [their] kids will be saved, and their
grandchildren
will be saved, and this passes on.
Instead of playing with the grandchildren, she now has to travel three times a week two hours up and down to Amsterdam just to get her treatment and tests."
In two generations, those had produced 3,800
grandchildren.
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