(n.) Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.
Example Sentences:
(1) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
(2) The reason I liked them was because they were a band, and my dad had a band.
(3) My dad had just died, and he was born on the very same day, in the very same year.
(4) Prince was named after his father's own stage persona, and when his parents split up he became determined to better his dad on piano.
(5) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … On looks alone, American Dad’s Stan Smith .
(6) It will make entering the market more difficult still for new buyers, further highlighting the importance of the right timing, advice, support and financial planning; and not just having a mum and dad who bought a house, but a grandparent, too.” Average UK house price reaches £288,000 Read more The average property price in the UK, currently £283,565, is expected to double by 2030, breaking through the £500,000 mark to £557,444.
(7) I saw my dad sitting in the audience, looking at me like, “Yes, he really is crazy.” Having listened to thousands of people, I realised we had a narrow view of what the environment is.
(8) He is Taurus and I'm Pisces; my dad was Pisces and my mum was Taurus.
(9) DADs may reach a magnitude in which extrinsic interventions may not adequately terminate sustained triggered activity.
(10) Flaviu, a two-year-old male about the size of a cocker spaniel, arrived at the zoo from a park in Kent after being separated from his mum and dad for the first time.
(11) Multivariate techniques for LC-DAD data are shown to suffer from inherent limitations of sensitivity for the minor components.
(12) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
(13) Not just going to a live show, but that kind of live show, with that kind of audience, the kind where mums and dads either have to tag along or turn up at the end to pick their children up.
(14) "It's made him more real, more of a person for me, whereas when I was a little girl I would say to my friends 'My dad died in the war' but it didn't mean anything to me because I never knew him.
(15) I cook, I save money, I do my own thing.’ Photograph: Antonio Olmos Laura: 'I couldn't live at home with my dad any longer.
(16) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
(17) "But my dad ran a furniture business, which he lost at the time of the Great Recession before dying of a brain haemorrhage," he says.
(18) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
(19) Throughout his life, Dad observed the rule that profanity – effing and blinding as he called it – should be confined to workplaces and other all-male venues where men gathered outside the earshot of women and children.
(20) In his V-neck sweater, dad jeans and white New Balance sneakers, Michael Lewis doesn’t look like a troublemaker.
Granddad
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, even as he is readying Her for lock-down, he's simultaneously dipping in and out of the production for the Jackass spin-off, Bad Grandpa , starring Knoxville as a fake 86-year-old granddad with a huge capacity for giving offence.
(2) My granddad opened a restaurant in northern Italy in 1963, the year I was born.
(3) "In 2008 my nan, in 2009 Gavin, my brother [who was attacked on the street in east London], 2011 my granddad, 2012 my dad [Jimmy Defoe, who lost his battle with throat cancer] and my cousin Hannah [tragically electrocuted in a pool on holiday].
(4) That stems from my family, my mum, my nan, my granddad.
(5) Those for whom family isn’t mum and dad, but just mum or dad, nan and granddad, brother or sister, two mums or two dads, parents from differing ethnicities … can now see a little of themselves reflected back in Wearing’s celebratory sculpture.
(6) His father, Graham, had hoped Carr would be a footballer – after all, he'd been a footballer and manager, and his granddad had been a footballer, so there was a sense of inevitability.
(7) Spry little David is the last surviving grandson of John D. It was Granddad Rockefeller who famously declared competition a sin, and built one of the world's great fortunes.
(8) Go out and buy your depressed granddad a luxury automobile immediately.
(9) It was Granddad Rockefeller who warned his Bible class: "Every downfall is traceable directly or indirectly to the victim's good fellowship" – and solemnly advised them: "Don't be a good fellow."
(10) So my Great Granddad in only a Govan native can do, wrote a staunch letter again which had many a swear word in.
(11) Also, whilst manager of St Mirren, my Great Granddad was less than impressed with Sir Alex Ferguson's tactics and teams selection, so wrote him a articulate letter suggesting some of his wisdom.
(12) Photograph: Mark Joyce I first went for a reserve match against Norwich City in the mid-1980s with my granddad, dad and brother.
(13) He's humouring me briefly in a hotel to talk The Lone Ranger , which reunites the Pirates mob ( Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski) to reboot your granddad's favourite gunslinger.
(14) There is even an option for granddads (it's never too late): a Sherlock Holmes-style calabash e-pipe.
(15) I only saw her once – at my granddad’s funeral.
(16) I will also wear a white poppy to honour my granddad, who robustly refused to be driven, sheep-like, to the trenches in 1914, holding that if you gave a gun to a working man and told him to kill another working man, the best thing for either of them to do would be to unite and collectively turn the guns on the bloody fat cat bosses that caused the whole thing to start with.
(17) Even those pantomime granddad goths, Black Sabbath, got their first number one album after 46 years .
(18) Seeing them force this poor 900-year-old agent to undertake the gruelling MI6 physical trial is akin to watching your granddad wheezing about on his hands and knees, shakily trying to retrieve a Malteser that's rolled under the coffee table.
(19) In other words, an era as dismal as any other has, bizarrely, become a sort of jovial granddad.
(20) Sir Alex Ferguson My Granddad's brother(William) played with Sir Alex at Rangers.