GRANDMOTHER in a Sentence
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144 example sentences for GRANDMOTHER, such as:
1. Teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
2. Her grandmother mumbled in her sleep.
3. Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
4. She shook grandmother's hand energetically.
5. Her grandmother seemed to her a pitiable figure.
2. Her grandmother mumbled in her sleep.
3. Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
4. She shook grandmother's hand energetically.
5. Her grandmother seemed to her a pitiable figure.
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Meanings and Examples of GRANDMOTHER
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grandmother
n. the mother of your father or mother
Classic Sentence: (128 in 9 pages)
1 The most vivid thing about her was the fact that her grandmother had been a Van Alstyne.
2 She was profusely escorted to a room like a grandmother's attic, where she discovered periodicals devoted to house-decoration and town-planning, with a six-year file of the National Geographic.
3 A tall woman, with wrinkled brown skin and black hair, stood looking down at me; I knew that she must be my grandmother.
4 The stove was very large, with bright nickel trimmings, and behind it there was a long wooden bench against the wall, and a tin washtub, into which grandmother poured hot and cold water.
5 I can remember exactly how the country looked to me as I walked beside my grandmother along the faint wagon-tracks on that early September morning.
6 When grandmother was ready to go, I said I would like to stay up there in the garden awhile.
7 The Bohemian family, grandmother told me as we drove along, had bought the homestead of a fellow countryman, Peter Krajiek, and had paid him more than it was worth.
8 'If they're nice people, I hate to think of them spending the winter in that cave of Krajiek's,' said grandmother.
9 She shook grandmother's hand energetically.
10 My grandmother always spoke in a very loud tone to foreigners, as if they were deaf.
11 He looked at us understandingly, then took grandmother's hand and bent over it.
12 We went with Mr. Shimerda back to the dugout, where grandmother was waiting for me.
13 Antonia loved to help grandmother in the kitchen and to learn about cooking and housekeeping.
14 Your grandmother's snake-cane wouldn't more than tickle him.
15 I admired the cheerful zest with which grandmother went about keeping us warm and comfortable and well-fed.
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say, the haves and the have-nots.
2 I resolved to visit my grandmother at least once a year.
3 My grandmother's pushing eighty but she's as fit as ever.
4 It's too far to ride to your grandmother's; you'd better take the bus.
5 Her grandmother seemed to her a pitiable figure.
6 Your grandmother would like you to sing for/to her.
7 Her grandmother mumbled in her sleep.
8 My grandfather is still living, but my grandmother is dead.
9 My grandmother often reeled off one story after another.
10 Teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
11 Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
12 They called their first daughter after her grandmother.
13 Although my grandmother's china has little intrinsic value, I shall always cherish it for the memories it evokes.
14 Prince Charles spoke of his grandmother's fortitude and devotion to duty after the death of her husband, King George.
15 After twenty years, she had only a nebulous memory of her grandmother's face.