How to Use grandfather in a Sentence
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Then my grandfather died and there was no one left to scold him.
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Shuang Xuetao,
The New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2023
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My grandfather passed it down to us.
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Reena Advani,
NPR,
1 Sep. 2025
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His grandfather’s war medals and flag are gone, too.
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Charlotte Observer,
9 Apr. 2026
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What was my great-great-grandfather’s life like?
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Martine Thompson,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2026
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This is not your grandfather's wrestling era.
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Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
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His grandfather mailed it to him.
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Antonia Blyth,
Deadline,
12 June 2026
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My grandfather was a garbage man.
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Sari Hitchins,
Parents,
19 June 2026
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This was the grandfather of qubits.
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Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
8 Oct. 2025
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Big Cat was like my grandfather to me.
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Shane Connuck,
Charlotte Observer,
18 Sep. 2025
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John Wick was the name of your grandfather.
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Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
8 Sep. 2025
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Frank was a father of three and a grandfather of five.
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Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
11 Apr. 2026
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Her grandfather had left some money to them each one of them.
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Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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The grandfather says much the same towards the end of the film.
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John Hopewell,
Variety,
6 Jan. 2026
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My grandfather built this house.
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Natalia Senanayake,
PEOPLE,
3 Apr. 2026
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Her grandfather has just passed.
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Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2026
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At one point his grandfather bartered his watch to get groceries and gas.
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Dallas Morning News,
28 Mar. 2026
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His grandfather would be proud.
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Lori Riley,
Hartford Courant,
1 May 2026
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Books that were given to me by my grandfather, who’s no longer here.
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Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
4 Mar. 2026
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Before the swim club snack bar, there was his grandfather.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
16 May 2026
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Ellis didn’t get to know his grandfather as well.
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Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
30 Aug. 2025
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My grandfather was a Knicks fan.
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Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
8 June 2026
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My great-aunt and great-uncle had built this house along with my grandfather.
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Bo Evans,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
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My grandfather ran a printing press for decades.
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Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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Was one of those factors my grandfather?
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Gabrielle Glancy,
Rolling Stone,
9 May 2026
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Both my grandfathers had been coal miners.
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Literary Hub,
18 June 2026
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His grandfather survived and is still alive.
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Rick Mauch,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Oct. 2025
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My grandfather had died the year before.
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Han Ong,
New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2026
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And my mom was the daughter of my grandfather, who was also a pro wrestler.
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Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
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Our grandfather’s voice was deep and gentle.
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Literary Hub,
1 May 2026
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Richie Grainge has opened up about what Richie is like as a grandfather.
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Juliana Ukiomogbe,
InStyle,
2 Apr. 2026
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Most of my straight male friends were grandfathered in from high school and college.
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Meredith Goldstein,
Health.com,
4 Apr. 2018
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Homes with more than three dogs would not be grandfathered in, but would receive a grace period.
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Lawrence Specker,
AL.com,
17 Apr. 2018
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Anyone who joins early on will grandfathered in and not have to pay in the future, the team said in its blog post.
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Robert Hackett,
Fortune,
18 Sep. 2017
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Any project that has qualified before the law expires will be grandfathered in.
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J.k. Dineen,
SFChronicle.com,
15 Nov. 2019
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Through Week 3 of this season, about 40 were still in use that were grandfathered in.
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Rob Maaddi,
The Seattle Times,
16 Oct. 2018
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But this point, Brady should just be grandfathered in to the Madden 99 club.
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Troy L. Smith,
cleveland.com,
15 July 2019
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City residents who own guns and accessories outlined in the bills would be grandfathered.
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Marcy Oster,
sun-sentinel.com,
30 Oct. 2019
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Banning was grandfathered into the old price but Tesla's website wasn't set up for that.
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Timothy B. Lee,
Ars Technica,
25 Oct. 2018
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Some billboards as high as 60 feet have been grandfathered, said spokeswoman Cindy Vasquez.
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Bill Hanna,
star-telegram,
9 Oct. 2017
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But thanks to his results, Belichick’s methods are grandfathered in to a different world.
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Albert Breer,
SI.com,
4 June 2018
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But all of this can be avoided if Democrats instead simply grandfather in existing enrollees and leave it at that.
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Brian Blase,
WSJ,
28 July 2022
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Families who have children at the old site, which is closing, will be grandfathered with a small price increase at the new center, but only for one year.
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BostonGlobe.com,
2 Dec. 2019
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Cruz, whose father and grandfather each played for more than a decade in the major leagues, could play multiple positions with the Tigers.
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Anthony Fenech,
Detroit Free Press,
17 June 2020
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Still, 15 of us have been able to maintain our larger spaces, our leases luckily grandfathered in.
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Michael Milton,
New York Times,
12 Jan. 2018
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The smokers, no longer allowed in Cleveland, will be grandfathered in for a buyer, says Norm, who is just selling the space, not his recipes.
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Laura Demarco,
cleveland.com,
25 Mar. 2018
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And because a number of weapons were grandfathered in — and production was increased prior to the ban — there still were many such weapons legally owned, even after the ban.
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Michael K. McIntyre,
cleveland.com,
11 Aug. 2019
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Some existing tenants like Bank of America were grandfathered in and allowed to stay.
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Roland Li,
SFChronicle.com,
7 July 2019
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Some players like Hingis and Venus Williams were grandfathered in; otherwise, the pipeline of teenage phenoms all but dried up.
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Ben Rothenberg,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2017
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They were grandfathered into rules in place before passage of the Budget Act of 2015.
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Mark Miller,
New York Times,
2 Aug. 2019
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The family’s imprint on the race begins with Dan Seavey, father to Mitch and grandfather to Dallas.
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Anchorage Daily News,
10 Mar. 2021
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The law, passed in 1992, grandfathered in legal sports betting at Nevada casinos and sports lotteries and pools in three other states.
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Allison Kite and Hunter Woodall,
kansascity,
14 May 2018
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That effectively grandfathers the UMKC and waterfront plans out of the reach of opponents.
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Bill Turque,
kansascity,
18 Jan. 2018
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The act would grandfather foreign investors from loss of their funds by virtue of retroactive effect of EB-5 developments and create a safety net to protect them.
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Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes,
8 Nov. 2021
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That’s because it was grandfathered in during the signing of a historic Everglades restoration and land preservation act signed in 1989.
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Charles Rabin,
miamiherald,
17 May 2017
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At the time, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said the city, though still studying the issue, thought its rules would be grandfathered in as they were approved ahead of the state law.
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Ryan Gillespie,
OrlandoSentinel.com,
26 Mar. 2018
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That number could increase if the 2014 draft class is grandfathered into the current CBA, allowing their rookie scale to grow, sources said.
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Tom Orsborn,
San Antonio Express-News,
6 Feb. 2018
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