How to Use grandmother in a Sentence

grandmother

noun
  • Who would my grandmother turn out to be?
    — Beth Kephart september 10, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Even my grandmother was a huge wrestling fan.
    — Darius Rucker, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
  • Boys mocked the polyester pants his grandmother sewed for him.
    — Madeleine Schwartz Soneela Nankani Tanya Pérez Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 14 May 2024
  • What would our grandmothers have said?
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Hawn, of course, comes from his grandmother.
    — Christina Perrier, InStyle, 15 Mar. 2026
  • My grandmother didn’t cross with me.
    — Sonny Alejandra, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
  • This is a big deal to all of us, and a joy to do for our mom and grandmother.
    — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026
  • My grandmother once told me that one day, there’s gonna be a day when the phone rings.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
  • Deng and her siblings were left in the care of their grandmother.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Part of me didn’t want to accept that my grandmother was gone.
    — Reem Kassis, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
  • But my grandmother Dorothy did not die.
    — Jesmyn Ward, Vanity Fair, 21 Apr. 2026
  • And the grandmother blinked twice.
    — Laura Vazquez, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • And my grandmother, who was like a saint, never said that to me.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Our grandmother was eighty-eight.
    — Hazlitt, 7 Jan. 2026
  • How my grandmother knew from childhood that love and loss were twins in life.
    — Jesmyn Ward, Vanity Fair, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Jean is named after her grandmother, who died three years ago.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
  • My grandmother didn’t teach me to fill and braid this beloved pastry.
    — Emily Alben, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
  • But my grandmother Dorothy wasn’t all fight.
    — Jesmyn Ward, Vanity Fair, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Arty must save his grandmother from the darkness and bring light back to her house.
    — Athena Aktipis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • First, my grandmother made it, and her recipes were always good.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Coastal grandmother style is beachy and preppy, but laid back.
    — Vivi Smilgius, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Tired of trying to make her grandmother proud.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • An end table first owned by a grandmother.
    — Steven Martinez, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • My grandmother’s chants pile up like the snow outside.
    — Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • My grandmother would eat fruit and throw the peel on the ground and cover it up with her feet.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • Their daughters walked down the aisle with their grandmother.
    — Kansas City Star, 23 June 2026
  • Kelley spent her grandmother's last day with her.
    — Amanda Starrantino, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • My grandmother passed away and nobody gave a s---.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 May 2026
  • Drops of the 84-year-old grandmother’s blood were on the doorstep of her home.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The children live with their grandmother, in a new home far from where the tragedy took place.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025

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