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452 examples of Grandfather in a sentence

Her husband had written a history arguing that his grandfather would have made a better emperor than Alexios, but Anna disagreed.
My mom was 12 when she saw my grandma set my grandfather on fire.
That is my grandfather.
It was my grandfather who introduced me to the effects of combat on the psyche.
While my grandfather was serving as a Marine in the Korean War, a bullet pierced his neck and rendered him unable to cry out.
I wouldn't have a name for my grandfather's condition until I was in my 20s.
And while sitting in class learning about post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD for short, my mission to help service members who suffered like my grandfather began to take form.
I wish I could have shared this process with my grandfather, but I know that he would be thrilled that we are finding ways to help today's and tomorrow's service members heal, and finding the resources within them that they can call upon to heal themselves.
I thought I was absolutely amazing because I could understand and relate to the feelings of brown people, like my grandfather, a conservative Muslim guy.
Fact: my grandfather didn't want to leave home, so he died in a war zone.
At first glance, it looks to be a grandfather clock with a sheet thrown over it and a rope tied around the center.
It was just a few years ago that my grandfather had a stroke, and he lost complete ability to speak.
My grandfather decided to stay, not believing it was that bad.
And after my grandfather passed away, my granny was able to keep that house because she had his pension and his health care from a state job which he held, which again, would have never been given to a black man before the anti-discrimination act of the 1960s.
About 60 years later, my grandfather, Oludotun Adekunle Kukoyi, also arrived in Lagos.
Many Lagosians, including the descendants of those fisherpeople who arrived generations before my grandfather, are now being pushed out to make room for an emergent city that has been described as "the new Dubai."
I like to believe that my grandfather, in mapping new frontiers for Lagos, was trying to open it up to make room for other people to be welcomed by the city in the same way that he was.
On my way here, my grandma called me to remind me how proud she was, how proud [my grandfather] and my mother would have been.
This is an old Mayan funeral chant that he got from his grandfather.
The one thing that kept me going: I remember the story of my grandfather, and how he used to walk 465 miles from his village to the city, just to protest for independence.
For my aunt, my grandfather, my father, we always held two funerals: one for their bodies, but, years before that, one for their dreams.
When I open my eyes and I see my sons in the place where my father once sat, I feel an invisible loyalty and love linking my sons to the grandfather whose face they never had a chance to see, but whose heart and soul they have come to know through all the stories I have told.
My grandfather lived most of his life and is buried in Zambia.
His father made yogurt before him, and his grandfather made cream cheese before that.
I can't make you responsible for what your grandfather did.
That's your grandfather.
She told me the story of her grandfather and his father.
Ellie said that when she heard the stories of the teens walking up across Mexico, all she could think about was her grandfather and his brother.
She left my grandfather when he was seven and didn't see him again until he was 14.
Years before, Jason’s uncle Pelias had ruthlessly usurped the throne of Thessaly from Jason’s grandfather.
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