How to Use grandniece in a Sentence

grandniece

noun
  • Many who work for Disney, as well as Walt Disney’s own grandniece, weren’t pleased.
    — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Back at the shelter, Lenia’s grandniece played gleefully at her feet.
    — João Paulo Pires, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Emmalena Ellis, a grandniece, said the cause was heart failure.
    — Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Kay is also survived by several nieces and a nephew, grandnieces and grandnephews, as well as many cousins and special friends.
    — courant.com, 8 Sep. 2019
  • The other grandnieces and nephews from other families send us a text with a picture or video thanking us.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 9 July 2023
  • For many years, Hudson’s own grandniece led the group, which has struggled at times to preserve the property.
    — Javier Pierini, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • For many years, Hudson’s own grandniece led the group, which has struggled at times to preserve the property.
    — Javier Pierini, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
  • Others, such as a woman and girl who claimed to be Prince’s niece and grandniece, had their claims rejected as a matter of law.
    — Washington Post, 19 May 2017
  • The only concession the comics have made to the passage of time is that Sharon is now Peggy's grandniece.
    — Andrew A. Smith Tribune News Service, Star Tribune, 12 Apr. 2021
  • During the 90-minute service, my grandnieces and grandnephews (ages 3 to 6) were running around the church.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Frances spends the rest of her life trying to forestall that event – only to be found dead in her study after summoning her grandniece Annie to hear her will.
    — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Abigail Disney, a grandniece of Walt Disney, is one of the company’s founders.
    — Brent Lang, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Ackerman did, however, manage to track down one relative — the grandniece of Roy and Nora.
    — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2020
  • At the second, the family laid to rest his 27-year-old grandniece, Dominique Moore, who was shot and killed on the streets of Watts last month.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The Swains adopted a grandniece who became their only child, and at various times over the years, the couple had taken in two of Thelma’s brothers.
    — Joshua Sharpe august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Now, a full 70 years later, Grace's grandniece Ginna Le Vine is reprising her leading role in the production.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 6 Mar. 2019
  • Marie Bonaparte, Freud’s avid French disciple (and Napoleon’s great-grandniece), put up much of the de facto ransom money to win his freedom.
    — Andrew Nagorski, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, whose grandniece died in the Ethiopia crash, last week called on Boeing's board and management to resign.
    — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Tina Wyatt, Tubman’s great-great-great-grandniece, recalled standing on the brick steps of Ross’s home, looking at an 1808 coin archaeologists found there.
    — Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The 66-year-old who lives in San Antonio's South side would only put her phones down to take her 2-year-old grandniece on a walk, cook chorizo and eggs for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch and a casserole by dinner time.
    — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The petition for admission was made on behalf of his great-great-great-grandniece, Melissa Parker Leonard, whose father, Alvin, often played the chief in historical reenactments.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025
  • One of the largest private collections of Anna Cassel’s paintings is housed in an unassuming apartment on the outskirts of Stockholm which belongs to Marie Cassel, Anna’s seventy-three-year-old grandniece.
    — Alice Gregory, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
  • The event will feature remarks by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and Amanda Wright Lane, the great-grandniece of Orville and Wilbur Wright.
    — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026

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