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452 examples of Grandfather in a sentence

The story of this little girl: She had been raped by her paternal grandfather every day for six months.
After two years in hiding, my grandfather appeared in London.
About 75 years ago, my grandfather, a young man, walked into a tent that was converted into a movie theater like that, and he fell hopelessly in love with the woman he saw on the silver screen: none other than Mae West, the heartthrob of the '30s, and he could never forget her.
You know, my grandfather died many years ago when I was little, but his love for Mae West lives on as a misspelling in the DNA of his progeny.
It means wearing my pride through my grandmother's tongue, my mother's food, my grandfather's song, my skin etched with stories of falling off donkeys and years and years and years of sleeping under a blanket of stars.
She moved to the United States, where she met my grandfather, who was a cement hauler, and they had nine children.
So, this is my grandfather, Salman Schocken, who was born into a poor and uneducated family with six children to feed, and when he was 14 years old, he was forced to drop out of school in order to help put bread on the table.
So this is my grandfather.
So my grandfather's genes go all the way through to him, and my choices are going to affect his health.
I had a conversation with my dad about prostate cancer, and I learned that my grandfather had prostate cancer and I was able to share with my dad that he was twice as likely to get that disease, and he didn't know that, and he hadn't been getting screened for it."
I've been a journalist now since I was about 17, and it's an interesting industry to be in at the moment, because as you all know, there's a huge amount of upheaval going on in media, and most of you probably know this from the business angle, which is that the business model is pretty screwed, and as my grandfather would say, the profits have all been gobbled up by Google.
And they supported my creative efforts, because my grandfather was a self-made man.
And my grandfather, he was a wise man, and he saw that as a problem, because he knew that was, like, the one thing I had.
So I get shipped off to private school, K through eight, public schools, but for some reason my grandfather was upset that somebody at the local high school had been stabbed and killed, so he didn't want me to go there.
My grandfather's just going to kill me."
On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.
And my grandfather would call me every week, and he would say, "Jarrett, how's it going?
My grandfather was an extraordinary man for his time.
When I returned to Afghanistan, my grandfather, the one exiled from his home for daring to educate his daughters, was among the first to congratulate me.
"My grandfather worked at this factory.
Thank you so much for coming to TED. (Applause) I have a friend in Portugal whose grandfather built a vehicle out of a bicycle and a washing machine so he could transport his family.
When I was a little girl, my grandfather took me to sit outside in the sun on a hot summer day.
When I'm photographing them, I cannot help but remember my grandfather's lesson.
This is my grandfather.
My grandfather taught me to work with wood when I was a little boy, and he also taught me the idea that if you cut down a tree to turn it into something, honor that tree's life and make it as beautiful as you possibly can.
My grandfather was a cab driver for 40 years.
So my husband has fond memories of talking to and playing with and generally being around his deceased grandfather, and for him there is nothing unnatural about this.
I remember my grandfather revising the capitals of the world with me.
If I were a child today, I could easily learn this information with apps and hyperlinks, but it really wouldn't be the same, because much later, I went to Vienna, and I went to the Spanish riding school, and I could feel my grandfather right beside me.
What I had with my grandfather was wrapped so often in information and knowledge and fact, but it was about so much more than information or knowledge or fact.
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