How to Use grandparent in a Sentence

grandparent

noun
Definition of grandparentnext
  • In some ways, grandparents have the best of both worlds.
    — Contributing Writer, Orange County Register, 13 Oct. 2024
  • In short: The milder summers of our parents and grandparents are a thing of the past.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 19 June 2024
  • Lived with my great grandparents for two and a half years.
    — CBS News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • But Evans, who was 13 when the movie was filmed, lives in his grandparents’ house now.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • There is a sycamore in the front yard of my grandparents’ house, the house where my father grew up.
    — Ryan Bradley, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Maybe there's something down the line – 10 years from now – where the kids are all grown, and John and Nia are grandparents.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • A lot of them did not know her, but their parents and grandparents did.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 1 Apr. 2024
  • In this case, the closest match shared a great-great-grandparent with the victim.
    — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
  • The charges stem from a shooting in the grandparents' Garfield Township, Mich., home on April 1.
    — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
  • His grandparents, both 74, still farm; each gets a pension of less than $15 a month.
    — Li Yuan, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Harris told the media outlet that the same garage was struck by a train in the late 1970s when her grandparents lived in the home.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024
  • In the early 1980s, my grandparents divorced and sold their house.
    — Pat Kapowich, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Timmer said the table has been there since his grandparents ran the store.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2024
  • The baby is with the world's best sitter or grandparent.
    — Macaela MacKenzie, Glamour, 15 Feb. 2023
  • It’s said there’s nothing that compares to the joy of being a grandparent.
    — Maya Polton, Parents, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Any grandparent on your list will love this massive box of treats.
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The sisters grew up riding bikes to their grandparents house in Racine, said Scott.
    — Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2024
  • Parents and grandparents can sit out on the lounge chairs while the kids dip in and out of the pool and enjoy the grottos and waterfalls.
    — Andrew J. Tardif, Miami Herald, 3 June 2024
  • Yun’s grandparents lived at the zoo in the 2000s and had five cubs here, including his mother Zhen Zhen.
    — Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The two businesses are first cousins — all tied back to their grandparents.
    — Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 30 July 2024
  • All four of my grandparents came here from somewhere else.
    — Bill Novelli, Fortune, 6 June 2023
  • My dad’s grandparents settled here in the ‘40s and never left.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2024
  • Her grandparents lived just a few blocks away from Torrey Pines Beach.
    — Richard Schlesinger, CBS News, 6 July 2024
  • Were the grandparents convinced to come along on a trip to the Four Seasons Orlando?
    — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 23 May 2024
  • Image As Fell-Davis turned down 96th Street, parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles walked kids to the school fence.
    — Meg Bernhard, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Then the family goes to the Bay Area to be with her Vietnamese grandparents on her mother’s side.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • On Easter, at my grandparents’ house, the golden egg has money in it and all the rest have candy.
    — Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But 3-4-5 times a week, a grandparent or aunt or second cousins would pop by unplanned.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The suite reminded me of my grandparents' house — something out of the 70s that was purposely left in that period.
    — James Barrett, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2024
  • My grandparents lost a lot of forest on ancestral land.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2024

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