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Grandfather in sentence

452 examples of Grandfather in a sentence

My father defied his own grandfather, almost to the point of disinheritance, because he decided to educate all four of us.
From the mighty eBay, the grandfather of exchange marketplaces, to car-sharing companies such as GoGet, where you pay a monthly fee to rent cars by the hour, to social lending platforms such as Zopa, that will take anyone in this audience with 100 dollars to lend, and match them with a borrower anywhere in the world, we're sharing and collaborating again in ways that I believe are more hip than hippie.
My grandfather had been a lumberjack in the Olympics, so I have a lot of tree karma I am working off.
My father and my grandfather were always looking for the newest thing in alternative or traditional therapies for PH, but after six months, I couldn't walk up a small hill.
Then in February of 2008, my grandfather passed away.
And I'll never forget hearing that story from Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, who told it to me as her grandfather told it to her, that in the beginning of the Creation something happened and the original light of the universe was shattered into countless pieces.
She'd been married at 17, and after 65 years of marriage, when my grandfather died suddenly one day, her loss was unbearable.
I was only nine when my grandfather first described to me the horrors he witnessed six years earlier when human stampedes killed 39 people in our hometown of Nashik, India.
I had a "normal" dad like everybody else, apart from the fact that he was 30 years older than ... well, he was basically old enough to be my grandfather.
It was my grandfather who decided they needed false documents.
And she told me, she said, "You know, I grew up in Southwestern Virginia, in the coal mines and the farmlands of rural Virginia, and this table was in my grandfather's kitchen.
They had the idea that the people who would be in political power should be in political power because of the blood being passed down from grandfather to father to son and so forth.
My great grandfather was Henry Ford, and on my mother's side, my great grandfather was Harvey Firestone.
But my great grandfather, Henry Ford, really believed that the mission of the Ford Motor Company was to make people's lives better and make cars affordable so that everyone could have them.
And that is the freedom of mobility that my great grandfather brought to people is now being threatened, just as the environment is.
My great grandfather once said before he invented the Model T, "If I had asked people then what they wanted, they would have answered, 'We want faster horses.'"
My grandmother survived and married my grandfather.
So here I have pictures of my grandfather at different ages.
We build for Maria, who uses poetry to heal after her grandfather died in the van she's living in with the rest of her family.
And then came the summer after my freshman year, when my grandfather passed away due to cancer.
When I was a little girl, my grandfather gave me his little silver pocket watch.
He is my grandfather.
Now, when I was a boy of about his age, I would go out fishing with my grandfather and we would catch fish about half that size.
I brought these books with me because they were written by my grandfather's favorite authors.
My grandfather was a rabbi and he was a widower who lived alone in a small apartment in Brooklyn that was my favorite place in the world when I was growing up, partly because it was filled with his very gentle, very courtly presence and partly because it was filled with books.
Just like the rest of my family, my grandfather's favorite thing to do in the whole world was to read.
But here's the thing about my grandfather.
And so these days I try to learn from my grandfather's example in my own way.
It was my version of my grandfather's hours of the day alone in his library.
My grandfather was in prison during prohibition.
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