How to Use grandmother in a Sentence

grandmother

noun

• My grandmother once told me that one day, there’s gonna be a day when the phone rings.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
• My grandmother would eat fruit and throw the peel on the ground and cover it up with her feet.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2023
• Boys mocked the polyester pants his grandmother sewed for him.
  — Madeleine Schwartz Soneela Nankani Tanya Pérez Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 14 May 2024
• For the next 10 days, Nimer's grandmother says his parents feared the worst.
  — Rob Schmitz, NPR, 24 Apr. 2024
• The grandmother of three was not charged in the accident.
  — Margaret Fleming, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2023
• Arty must save his grandmother from the darkness and bring light back to her house.
  — Athena Aktipis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• In the meantime, Masten was in the care of her mother and grandmother.
  — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024
• Renee Sanchez, the girl’s grandmother, loaded the girl into her car seat for a trip to the Phoenix Zoo.
  — Byeva Roytburg, Fortune, 20 June 2024
• The toddler’s grandmother, 63-year-old Emma Wade, was pronounced dead at the scene of the wreck.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 31 Mar. 2023
• And during, a close friend read scripture from the bride’s late grandmother's Bible.
  — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
• Howard said the country buried the massacre – and stories like his grandmother’s – for years.
  — Omar Jimenez, CNN, 20 June 2023
• No doubt many grandmothers will want to scold us, but the truth is, soap isn't going to destroy your cast iron pans.
  — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 12 Nov. 2023
• Coastal grandmother style is beachy and preppy, but laid back.
  — Vivi Smilgius, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• The mother and a grandmother grabbed Mattie and Conrad.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 18 July 2023
• What if a grandmother had a heart attack or a kid drowned while his team was on an overdose call?
  — Lauren Peace, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
• My grandmother died the day the missionaries came for our souls.
  — Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• The story of a dying grandmother and one little boy—the son of the chief—became something of a legend among the Brulé.
  — Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
• Thomas, a new grandmother, needs to get equipped to drive her granddaughter around.
  — Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 2 July 2024
• The actress, born Mary Louise Streep, takes her first name from her mother and grandmother, both named Mary.
  — Francesca Pellegrini, Vogue, 22 June 2024
• The teens, who used to have their own bedrooms, began sharing one to make room for their grandmother.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• For Mary, her grandmother’s illness was the thing still holding her back.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
• The baby looked on calmly from the arms of his grandmother, who arrived at the scene after the traffic stop.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
• But the grandmother’s solely visual cameo may still ply misty from you.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 July 2023
• The twins have already missed two years of school when their grandmother couldn’t pay the fees and their mother, struggling in the city, couldn't help either.
  — Aniruddha Ghosal, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
• In August 1935, my grandmother Ida Goslar died in Berlin.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
• Oh, and that crib that was taking up half her office went to a friend who had just become a grandmother.
  — Marni Jameson, The Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2024
• Perez, the 4-year-old girl, died at a hospital four days after the crash; her grandmother was pronounced dead at the scene.
  — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 19 Apr. 2024
• After the discovery on base — she was found asleep in bed at the barracks — the girl was released to the custody of her grandmother.
  — Bill Feather, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
• The lace cookies are great on their own, but my grandmother always topped hers with powdered sugar.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2024
• But there is no mistaking this as a reaction to the camp or thoughts of his grandmother; Majdanek only gave him a little shove.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024