How to Use grandnephew in a Sentence

grandnephew

noun
  • Walsh is survived by a niece and nephew and two grandnephews.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2024
  • His grandnephew succeeded him, but the monarchy ended when the war did.
    — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2014
  • Crow also paid for the private school tuition of Thomas's grandnephew.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
  • Right now two of Benedict’s brothers, four nieces and nephews, and two grandnephews work here.
    — Meadow Rue Merrill, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Apart from her sister, Jaudes is survived by two nieces, a nephew and eight grandnieces and grandnephews.
    — Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
  • She is survived by her brother, John and many nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.
    — courant.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • And then having all my nieces there, my sisters, and my little grandnephew, Liam, playing the little elf.
    — Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Besides her niece, she is survived by nephew Harold Burnley, and many grandnieces, grandnephews, and cousins.
    — Bonnie L. Cook, Philly.com, 13 June 2017
  • Talanei reports that Leauma was a grandnephew of the governor.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The next year, Dixon gave Thomas $5,000 to put toward his grandnephew’s tuition.
    — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Joshua was the grandnephew of Charles Vallow, who along with Lori Vallow adopted the child.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 12 May 2023
  • The cause was complications from pneumonia, said a grandnephew, Amit Brakin.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Crow also bought Thomas’s childhood home, where his mother still lives, and paid the private boarding school tuition for Thomas’s grandnephew.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
  • On Facebook, Kathy Diane Rouse asked everyone to pray for her grandnephew’s safe return.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Crow also gave Thomas money in an undisclosed real estate deal and paid private school tuition for his grandnephew, who Thomas was raising as a son.
    — Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2023
  • Burns gained a niece in Florida and nephews in New York and Tennessee as well as a number of grandnieces and grandnephews.
    — Aaron Davis, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2017
  • The whiskey is named after Baker Beam, the grandnephew of Jim Beam himself and a distiller who worked at the distillery for nearly four decades.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Judith is also survived by Edith Marsden, of Massachusetts, her very best friend, and nine grandnieces and grandnephews.
    — courant.com, 15 June 2018
  • Crow took Thomas on private jet flights and yacht cruises around the world, paid private school tuition for the justice’s grandnephew and paid Thomas money in an undisclosed real estate deal.
    — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 12 July 2023
  • The swatch made the 300 million-mile journey to Mars with the blessing of the Wright brothers’ great-grandniece and great-grandnephew, said park curator Steve Lucht.
    — NBC News, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The swatch made the 300 million-mile journey to Mars with the blessing of the Wright brothers' great-grandniece and great-grandnephew, said park curator Steve Lucht.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Enquirer, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Another Castro family member acting as a point man for those talks is Óscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, a grandnephew of the Castro brothers.
    — New York Times, 16 May 2026
  • Charlie Taney is the great-great-grandnephew of former Chief Justice Roger Taney, the man who wrote the infamous Dred Scott opinion that helped provoke the Civil War.
    — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 7 July 2026
  • As Googoosh notes throughout the book, her fans include many religious Iranians, including the grandnephew of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The former residence of Prince Roland Bonaparte, Napoleon’s grandnephew, opened in 2010 as the 100-room Shangri-La Paris, complete with a spa and sun-dappled pool about 56 feet long.
    — Mary Winston Nicklin, AFAR Media, 20 Jan. 2026
  • In less than two years, another family member, Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, a grandnephew of Fidel and Raúl Castro, has been climbing the ladder to become minister of foreign trade and investment and vice prime minister.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2026

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