How to Use granddad in a Sentence

granddad

noun
Definition of granddadnext
  • 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 | Rjohnson@al.com, 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
  • 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
  • Loading View on Instagram Abloh's not alone in pushing the granddad sneaker to new heights.
    — Tyler Watamanuk, GQ, 11 June 2018
  • His teammates at the University of Maryland had dads who played there, and granddads, and great-great granddads.
    — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023

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