How to Use granddad in a Sentence

granddad

noun

• Think of it like your granddad — take it out once a week.
  — Victoria Gomelsky, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2020
• Their granddad had the business, and their dad passed it on to them.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 2 Feb. 2020
• My granddad tried with all his might to get me to help work in the garden.
  — Tituss Burgess, New York Times, 16 May 2017
• Dads and granddads promised to teach their sons about the right ways to treat women.
  — Valentina Zarya, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2017
• My dad worked the coal mine, my granddad worked the coal mine, my brothers work the coal mine.
  — Ted Koppel, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
• There might still be whiskey around that his granddad touched.
  — Tony Sachs, Esquire, 14 Mar. 2018
• My granddad was one of the first people to go into the wild and bring deer back and farm deer...
  — Lizzy Saxe, Forbes, 25 June 2021
• Dads and granddads will receive a free root beer float with the purchase of any meal.
  — Weldon Johnson, azcentral, 10 June 2019
• Recliners have come a long way from the beast your granddad sat in.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2023
• The boys knew of it from stories their granddad told them growing up.
  — Chris Varias, Cincinnati.com, 26 Mar. 2020
• My granddad fell this morning while mowing the lawn and broke his hip.
  — Allison Klein, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2020
• This gun was given to my granddad’s cousin during a miner’s strike in the 1950s.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 23 Feb. 2021
• Which is just how Agostini’s dad and granddad used to do it.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
• Now, to be clear, Mattiussi isn't the first guy since MJ and your granddad to endorse this move.
  — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 19 Jan. 2018
• When a granddad takes his grandchildren fishing, this is the sort of thing that keeps them from eating the fish.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 1 Mar. 2020
• On top of that my parents and my wife are Korean and my granddad lives here so that would be great.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
• His granddad would get big buckets of ice water, and drop the melons inside to cool them down.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2022
• My granddad is now 66 years of age and knows nothing about his father or his origins.
  — The Root, 7 July 2017
• Tucker puts the coffee down and grabs his granddad’s rifle.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• My granddad is 95 now, nearly, and he's always been a father figure to me.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 5 Dec. 2021
• The Stuedle’s had a farm there and my granddad and one of his brothers married Stuedle sisters.
  — Nancy Stearns Theiss, The Courier-Journal, 17 July 2017
• And when Thomas asks why his granddad Tom killed himself, Ace says his spirit was broken.
  — Kimberly Potts, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2021
• My granddad wasn’t a civil-rights activist—more informed by his Catholic faith.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 19 May 2018
• The structures are named after the grandparents of employees and special guests; Hank is the granddad of one of the cabin builders.
  — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2020
• Your granddad never got to give his side of the story — something most lynch victims had in common.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
• But his granddad’s murder didn’t keep Woods away from a trail of run-ins with the law in Miami-Dade County, police records show.
  — Lisa J. Huriash, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Oct. 2020
• Will has true mentors like having uncles and granddads there.
  — Dana Scott, azcentral, 16 Oct. 2019
• And Tiger was originally meant to be my first name, but because I was born on my granddad’s birthday, it got moved to the middle.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2022
• My reasoning was that my dad, his dad, and his granddad all had Huntington’s.
  — Emily Rekstis, SELF, 28 Aug. 2017
• Both my parents did, with my late granddad got me that first experience.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 4 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024