How to Use grandkid in a Sentence

grandkid

noun
  • Just my wife and me, the kids, the grandkids and the in-laws.
    Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
  • And the truth is their kids and their grandkids are busy.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2022
  • Of course our son-in-laws and grandkids checked on him.
    Jennifer Willis/special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Our grandkids love the beach (which is not crowded in front of the house).
    Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Welch, 78, brought her great-grandkids to this year's Taste.
    Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2018
  • Barb, the kids and grandkids sat with him, telling stories.
    Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Apr. 2020
  • On this day, many of your grandkids—inspired by you—will jump out of a plane.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 13 June 2024
  • And working with people young enough to be their grandkids just adds to the fun.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Or maybe, but don’t tell Britney this, to have a grandkid.
    John Cherwa, latimes.com, 5 Jan. 2018
  • For a while there, all of us went to our grandkids or kids to figure out how to use these things.
    Matt Laslo, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
  • And then parents box them up and bring them out for their grandkids too.
    Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2019
  • And most of the grandkids have made appearances on the show already.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 28 Sep. 2017
  • For the price of two fancy cocktails, this is a knife your grandkids will use.
    T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Isla is the second grandkid of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips.
    Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2022
  • My mom has tried to change this for 16 years and with each new baby, and none of the grandkids will adjust.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But your kids, your grandkids will thank you for doing it.
    Andrew Lawrence, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023
  • Her seven grandkids, one of whom was born after her death, were the light of her life.
    Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2024
  • That’s when grandparents take the grandkids and leave the parents at home.
    Elycia Rubin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Just past the site of the old turbine was a wading pool that Pettit built for his grandkids.
    Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2018
  • Are the kids and grandkids harsher with the judgement than parents?
    Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
  • And when the grandkids visit, Walt Disney World is about an hour away.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 23 Feb. 2024
  • This will be the thing my kid(s) and grandkids make fun of me for refusing to ever be OK with.
    Paul Dehner Jr., Cincinnati.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Two grandkids were up by the windshield, crammed in front of blue drums of gas, with gas pooled around the bungs and more tanks in the stern leaking gas.
    Seth Kantner, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Oct. 2019
  • Years ago, my mom handed her kids and grandkids a package of sticky notes.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2024
  • So his son, Calvin, and grandkids decided to send him off in the best way: in a school bus casket.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN, 21 Aug. 2019
  • As non-golfers, the Johnsons would rather spend their time in other ways, such as with their grandkids.
    Andrea Darr, kansascity, 27 May 2017
  • The post also features a few sweet photos of Rhea's dad and his grandkids.
    Emma Aerin Becker, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024
  • Amber Hauck, one of the grandkids, told Fox News Digital the idea started as a kind of joke among the cousins.
    Genevieve Shaw Brown Fox News, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Joan is visiting with Guy’s siblings, as well as his kids and grandkids.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Hardaway, who has three grandkids under age four, stresses the importance of keeping things simple.
    Kinsey Gidick, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2024

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