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Grandfather in sentence

452 examples of Grandfather in a sentence

That way, my aunt could sleep much better at night without having to worry about my grandfather's wandering.
I've tested the device on my grandfather for about a year now, and it's had a 100 percent success rate in detecting the over 900 known cases of his wandering.
One thing I'll never forget is when my device first caught my grandfather's wandering out of bed at night.
You sit across from, say, your grandfather for close to an hour and you listen and you talk.
At the end of the session, you walk away with a copy of the interview and another copy goes to the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress so that your great-great-great-grandkids can someday get to know your grandfather through his voice and story.
They lived with their mom and grandfather in a two-story row home with a front lawn and a back porch.
It was their grandfather's pension that supported the family, not really enough to pay for food and clothes and school supplies for growing boys.
One of my greatest teachers was my grandfather.
I remembered that story that my grandfather told me, and so we thought, "How many different screws can we put in the box?
Everyone remembers that grandfather or uncle or neighbor who used to drink, never said a word, always in a bad mood, beat his wife and who would end up either sinking into alcoholism or dying.
And let's not forget the Elvish languages in J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, especially since that was the official grandfather of the fantasy conlangs.
Just as a grandfather clock relies on the constant swinging back and forth of a pendulum under gravity, the tick tock of an atomic clock is maintained by the transition between two energy levels of an atom.
As a boy in Lima, my grandfather told me a legend of the Spanish conquest of Peru.
You know, I grew up with a very famous grandfather, and there was kind of a ritual in my home.
The penis of a chicken flea, for example, looks nothing like a pipette, more like an exploded grandfather clock.
Or as my late grandfather would say, complete BS.
And indeed, when I shared the list with my grandfather, he nodded in recognition.
One day, this ring that belonged to my grandfather will pass to my son, Charlie.
My grandfather was a coal miner.
EH: So you had a childhood with little in the way of strong male role models, except for your grandfather.
NL: Oh, my grandfather.
Well here's the way I always talked about that grandfather.
My grandfather used to take me and we'd stand on the street corner, he'd hold my hand, and I'd look up and I'd see a tear running down his eye.
The truth was my grandfather took me to parades, we had lots of those.
But "My dearest darling Mr. President," all the rest of it, is a story I borrowed from a good friend whose grandfather was that grandfather who wrote those letters.
And, I mean, I stole Arthur Marshall's grandfather and made him my own.
So much so that I appropriated Arthur Marshall's grandfather.
My own grandfather passed away after a single dose of antibiotic caused his kidneys to fail.
My grandfather was a giant, too.
So my grandfather, their son, became a traveling salesman, and he lived boom and bust.
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