How to Use grandpa in a Sentence

grandpa

noun

• The Basque bread and the bean stew are her Basque grandpa’s recipes.
  — Flora Tsapovsky, SFChronicle.com, 9 Oct. 2020
• The Prince of Wales is going to be a grandpa...for a fifth time!
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 14 Feb. 2021
• My grandpa was the pinkie ring that The Irishman was based on.
  — Vulture, 9 June 2022
• The 15 year old will join his dad and grandpa in the bleachers near Turn 4.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 29 May 2022
• His mom is there, and his grandpa's on set with him a lot of times.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 5 Apr. 2022
• My grandma and grandpa Carter hired in here back in the 1940s.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2023
• His grandpa, aunt, cousins and friends live a block over.
  — USA Today, 22 June 2020
• This is equal parts grandpa’s study and trusty dive bar.
  — Alex Delany, Bon Appétit, 14 Nov. 2019
• Brown jokes that the players and maybe even the coaches see him as a grandpa.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Mar. 2022
• Steven Spielberg is winning the award for best grandpa of the year.
  — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
• The look of joy on Charles' face in the candid moment is peak grandpa.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 18 Nov. 2018
• Neither does his 75-year-old grandpa, both of whom were along for the ride on a frigid, predawn Oct. 17.
  — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Just like my grandpa, he was filled with laughter and knew how to have a good time.
  — Elsa Cavazos, refinery29.com, 2 Nov. 2020
• My grandma is so rude to my grandpa's wife and even likes to talk about her in front of her.
  — Henry J. Morgan, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2022
• And those little kids who used to go with their dad, now that dad is a grandpa.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 11 June 2021
• These ain’t your grandpa’s Browns -- or even your 2-year-old nephew’s Browns.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 30 Nov. 2020
• The only thing missing from the car is Tabitha’s grandpa’s watch.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
• Terry was a point guard who could read the court like no one else, said his grandpa.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2023
• My grandpa used to say that half of doing a good job was having the right tools for it.
  — Gary Markle, sun-sentinel.com, 20 May 2021
• Pops is Lunella's cool grandpa and the proud owner of Roll With It.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2022
• My grandpa was a big part of the Friendship Circle. ...
  — Neely Allen, Detroit Free Press, 22 Aug. 2022
• Arthur is one of William and Charles’s middle names, while Charles, of course, is his grandpa’s name.
  — Diana Pearl, PEOPLE.com, 24 May 2018
• Just like his dad and grandpa did for 40 years before him.
  — Cody Nelson, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2019
• Those assholes — your grandpa has one thing left to live for.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 14 May 2024
• Nor’easter used to sound scary by itself, but that’s your grandpa’s storm.
  — Mark Arsenault, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• The twins learn that their grandpa is being hunted by a loan shark.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 22 Dec. 2023
• My grandpa, who helped raise me as a child, worked until 11 p.m. most nights.
  — Libby Rothschild, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• His grandpa, Robert Smith, helping out in the backyard, peeks in the back window and waves.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2020
• And randomly, the nurse was a Filipino man with the same name as my grandpa who just passed away a few months ago.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
• While there, she was treated by a Filipino nurse who had the same name as the singer’s grandpa, who passed earlier this year.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024