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
• My grandmother didn’t teach me to fill and braid this beloved pastry.
  — Emily Alben, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 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
• Harry then called his grandmother and asked to speak when the couple returned to the U.K.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Tate, a mother of four, grandmother of 16 and barely 5 feet tall, asked.
  — Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 3 Nov. 2024
• Among the images in the carousel was also one of the girls smiling with their grandmother, Sameha Kotb.
  — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
• Coastal grandmother style is beachy and preppy, but laid back.
  — Vivi Smilgius, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• Some of the stories the author recalled were based on her grandmother.
  — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 17 Nov. 2022
• 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
• Louisville gave me more of a connection to my great-grandmother.
  — The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 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
• Miller was raised by her grandmother and her mom, a single mother who gave birth to her at age 15.
  — Caitlin Brody, Glamour, 15 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Shabtai shows us a tattoo on his arm that’s a reminder of his grandmother and her roots.
  — Andy Wang, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
• About three years ago, her grandmother died and the director came home for the funeral.
  — Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025