Grandfather in sentence

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I was a young boy, and my grandfather had just died, and I remember a few days later lying in bed at night trying to make sense of what had happened.

And if you reach back into the dark corners of your memory, you might remember something like what I felt when my grandfather died and when I realized it could happen to me too, that sense that behind all of this the void is waiting.

My grandfather committed suicide by poisoning.

My grandfather had been a shipwright, and as a child, as there were few other jobs in the town, I would wonder with some anxiety whether that would be my destiny too.

A friend of mine, an Indian friend of mine, went to his grandfather when he was very young, a child, and said to him, "I want to talk to you about religion," and his grandfather said, "You're too young.

So he came back when he was a teenager, and he said to his grandfather, "It may be a bit late now because I've discovered that I don't believe in the gods."

And his grandfather, who was a wise man, said, "Oh, so you belong to the atheist branch of the Hindu tradition."

Religion has not being separated from any other areas of life, and in particular, what's crucial to understand about this world is that it's a world in which the job that science does for us is done by what Rattray is going to call religion, because if they want an explanation of something, if they want to know why the crop just failed, if they want to know why it's raining or not raining, if they need rain, if they want to know why their grandfather has died, they are going to appeal to the very same entities, the very same language, talk to the very same gods about that.

My grandfather was a cobbler.

You see, while the Industrial Revolution did a great deal to improve humanity, it eradicated the very skill that my grandfather loved, and it atrophied craftsmanship as we know it.

Now, these are not my grandfather's shoes.

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.

When she was 14 years old, her grandfather sold her to a brothel.

And I started thinking about why do I do any of what I do, and I started thinking about my grandfather.

And my grandfather was a kind of guy who would not only take things apart, but he got me interested in all sorts of different odd crafts, like, you know, printing, like the letter press.

My grandfather was the guy who kind of got me into all sorts of these things.

It represents my grandfather.

What I've realized is what my grandfather did for me when I was a kid, everyone has access to now.

You don't need to have my grandfather, though you wish you had.

And I thought back to what I would have done using the Super 8 camera that my grandfather got me sitting in that room, and I realized that hand didn't have to be Eddie Marsan's.

And the mystery box, in honor of my grandfather, stays closed.

Now, two weeks ago, I became a grandfather for the fourth time.

My grandfather used to say, "People protect what they love."

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."

My grandfather had three wives.

Growing up in a family with three generations, I've always been very close to my grandfather.

When I was four years old, my grandfather and I were walking in a park in Japan when he suddenly got lost.

It was one of the scariest moments I've ever experienced in my life, and it was also the first instance that informed us that my grandfather had Alzheimer's disease.

I became really concerned about my aunt's well-being as well as my grandfather's safety.

Then, one night about two years ago, I was looking after my grandfather and I saw him stepping out of the bed.

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