grandfather

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[ US /ˈɡɹænˌfɑðɝ, ˈɡɹændˌfɑðɝ/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈændfɑːðɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the father of your father or mother
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How To Use grandfather In A Sentence

  • As a postscript to the story, my great grandfather died a few weeks after this conversation, proving, as his wife pointed out to her daughter, that she had been correct in her surmise.
  • My grandfather was eighty when he died and was gathered to his fathers.
  • It never occurred to me that you might not realize he was your father or grandfather, or great grandsire or whatever.
  • Apparently some creature called a kobold escaped from wherever my grandfather trapped it, and it has teamed up with Milo. Master of Mirrors
  • The bear is called grandfather by many peoples and the tiger is alluded to as the striped one. Exploring language (6th edn)
  • His maternal grandfather, for example, would probably be called something completely different. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. Abraham Lincoln 
  • I don't really know him so I was shocked to see how much he favors our grandfather and great-grandfather.
  • My grandfather's Purple Heart ," Frank replied with hardly a moment's hesitation. DEVIL'S CLAW
  • His maternal grandfather, who fled Russia to avoid conscription by the tsarist army, was a Hebrew scholar, mystic, mathematician, and inventor who made boots and shoes for a living.
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