(1) Cynics will tell you Camra’s membership know all about identity crises – once the rebels of the 1970s, they’re now mostly older dads and grandads – purists upholding Camra’s “cask only” creed as sacred.
(2) Like her bolder aunt Marine, the timid Maréchal-Le Pen complained that she suffered greatly from taunts at school that her grandad was a “fascist”.
(3) I first had stuffed vine leaves at my grandad's guesthouse in Southend, and deeply regret not pilfering his recipe before he passed away.
(4) Founded in 1982, Twenty Twenty is the company behind factual programmes such as The Choir, That'll Teach 'Em', Bad Lads Army, Brat Camp and current BBC2 show Grandad's Back in Business.
(5) My grandad used to deliver the milk and ladle it into people’s teapots.
(6) Grandad may have survived on the streets of east London as a boy thanks to the kindness of the Salvation Army but he was frankly clueless about Merseybeat.
(7) They provide a solution to the age-old dilemma of what to buy your grandad once his need for socks and whisky is truly sated and provide an easy gift fix for long-distance friends and family.
(8) There’s not a day that goes by where I don’t think about my cousin, my dad, my nan and grandad.
(9) My grandad used to walk me home from my countryside primary school, along the footpath that led to his council bungalow.
(10) My first day – you’d have thought a couple of school kids would have been dragged in by a dad or grandad.
(11) I always remember the startled look of the platitudinous young vicar who visited our house after my grandad died, when my mum said, "Don't come round here with your mumbo-jumbo.
(12) The way we’re taught it is, ‘well, our ancestors were there, and we always believe grandad and granny’.” This obviously won’t satisfy the sceptics.
(13) John Joe comes from a proud travelling family; Luke's grandad was Irish and ended up in England in unusual circumstances, on the lam to the UK after losing a prearranged fight to one of his fiance's brothers.
(14) Or, as they are in the French press, “le gang du papys” (the grandads’ gang).
(15) It read: "Girls, grannies, mums, dads, lads, grandads – everyone meet on Sneinton Dale tonight at 9 o'clock as we are all going to kick off …" Lowe a 39-month prison sentence.
(16) "He was a champion, my old great-grandad," Saunders says, grinning, "and you can still see that today.
(17) I remember that my grandad was just like a father to me and that he always used to take me along to training and pay my subs as a kid to the local teams in my town when he had to.
(18) However, I often borrow poetry books off my mum, and when I was younger, my grandma and grandad bought me a poetry anthology that first sparked my interest in poetry.
(19) Ellie Butler's grandad: 'The devastation is complete and utter' Read more Neal Gray said Tuesday’s verdicts were fantastic news.
(20) I sat my children down in November and asked if they'd like to spend Christmas Day with Granny, Grandad and Daddy; and celebrate another on New Year's Eve with me.
Grandam
Definition:
(n.) An old woman; specifically, a grandmother.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two ANOVA solution sets for the parameters of model 4 were based on sire, dam, maternal grandsire, maternal grandam and phenotypic variances and offspring-dam (covOD), offspring-sire (covOS), offspring-grandam (covOGD) and offspring-maternal half-aunt or uncle (covOMH) covariances.
(2) Two ANOVA solution sets for the parameters of model 4 were obtained using sire, dam, maternal grandsire, maternal grandam and phenotypic variances and offspring-dam (covOD), offspring-sire (covOS), offspring-grandam (covOGD), and offspring-maternal half-aunt or uncle (covOMH) covariances.