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Meanings of grandparents in English
f. grandmother
Parent's parent.
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Examples for "grandmothers"
Examples for "grandmothers"
1
Their grandmothers had known each other in Russia, their mothers in Paris.
2
EBONY: Many younger women associate Fashion Fair with their mothers and grandmothers.
3
Babies were not so cared for in the days of our grandmothers.
4
I've had to endure everyone's advice and grandmothers' hedge-magic remedies ever since.
5
The other ladies who were the grandmothers of Parikshit centered around him.
1
But he renounced his claim in the succession to his grandfathers crown.
2
My grandfathers, everyone in my family, the men have served this country.
3
My grandfathers, everybody in my family, the men have served this country.
4
They make what their grandfathers made in the way of art objects.
5
We were born here and our grandfathers were born here, Murunga said.
1
In 1900, a family meant two parents, children and often a grandparent.
2
One in every four French citizens has a foreign parent or grandparent.
3
Officer Vitikkohuhta obviously didn't have a grandparent who was his best friend.
4
Being a grandparent, I'm told by the people who know, is magic.
5
A grandparent is qualified through age and willingness to assume the role.
1
Grandma or Grandpa will drive you to school and pick you up, I think.
2
But what about those with mothers, fathers, grandmas or grandpas of European or British descent?
3
Grandchild will readily grasp that Grandma or Grandpa wants to share, and that sharing is fine.
4
In arranging the visit, Grandma or Grandpa discusses with Son or Daughter what they have in mind.
1
That means grandpa or grandma just hid them from you and... . '
2
The visit will include Grandpa or Grandma being interviewed by Grandchild.
1
More especially their relationship takes on elements borrowed from the attitude of child to parent , of parent to child.
Usage of grandparents in English
1
Police said the grandparents had given Boysen a room in their home.
2
Most of the keys were lost years ago, in our grandparents' time.
3
My grandparents arrived penniless, started a small family business and voted Tory.
4
Your grandparents had every good reason to keep the truth from you.
5
I'm afraid it's time we went downstairs...to discuss consequences with your grandparents.
6
The couple's two young children are currently being raised by their grandparents.
7
Some grandparents are struggling financially and are calling for more government support.
8
The late visitor found the grandparents alone in the house of Gorgias.
9
My grandparents left a South that let people get away with lynching.
10
A third of American adults, or roughly seventy million people, are grandparents.
11
Two years ago I met her and my grandparents and her sister.
12
Even the year that Ann and Billy were gone with their grandparents.
13
What Skinflick had said about my grandparents, I knew, had been right.
14
I didn't understand it, and neither did anyone else, especially my grandparents.
15
Achab's grandparents were Algerian but since then, her family has been French.
16
Yet we don't think of our parents and grandparents as too brave.
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