8 sentences with 'grandmother'
Example sentences and phrases with the word grandmother and other words derived from it.
• « In his later years, after the death of his grandmother, he became more sullen than he had always been. »
• « When my grandmother died I was 10 years old. Her death in that distant July, in the middle of one of the wettest summers I can remember, broke our hearts. »
• « So when his 87-year-old grandmother became seriously ill, he sat beside her and prayed "with great devotion". The old woman soon recovered. »
• « The grandmother claimed that her grandson had returned the night before at 11:30 p.m., and Roger, interviewed separately, claimed he had arrived at 11:05. »
• « The lady, who is her grandmother, explains: "Her mother got drunk and beat her. She does it often. »
• « Mary Jo advises the grandmother to start legal proceedings to obtain custody of her granddaughter. »
• « Then I showed him a ceramic oil lamp that my grandmother had converted into an electric lamp, and also some rusty tongs that my grandfather, my father and I used to carry ice. »
• « One day in 1957, composer Johnny Mercer received a letter signed by Sadie Vimmerstedt, a widowed grandmother who worked in the cosmetics department of a shop in Youngstown, Ohio. Mrs. Vimmerstedt suggested that Mercer write a song entitled I Want to Be Around to Pick Up the Pieces When Somebody Breaks Your Heart. »