(n.) A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent.
Example Sentences:
(1) She loved us and we loved her.” “We would have loved to have had a little grandchild from her,” she says sadly.
(2) The ibd for grandparent-grandchild pairs is least affected by recombination, followed by sibs, half-sib, uncle-nephew, and first-cousin pairs.
(3) The couple was delighted with their first holiday to Egypt and were planning to return with their children and grandchild within a couple of months.
(4) Similarities, however, were seen in the ranked importance of the role, in the amount of help received from grandchildren, and in grandfather-grandchild consensus.
(5) They had a grandmother, her daughter and her grandchild all in the same ward.
(6) See you soon” is not something you want to hear from your emergency department doctor, but I’d like to think that perhaps if they do return it’ll be for a grandchild that they have lived to see.
(7) I think Sanders will win Iowa and New Hampshire.” Clinton will kickstart what she hopes is her year of destiny (and which will also include a second grandchild) at a school canteen in Concord, New Hampshire, on Sunday, followed by visits to Iowa – where the first Democratic caucus is held next month – and Las Vegas.
(8) When each interaction with a grandchild or good-bye kiss to a spouse may be the last, a sense of poignancy may permeate even the most casual everyday experiences.
(9) For larger theta values, grandparent-grandchild pairs are best; for small lambda values, sibs are best.
(10) My first grandchild is seven months old living here, and she has something I dream of – two passports.” It seems that for the man who changed the world, happiness may mean becoming Australian.
(11) He is survived by his third wife, Pearl, whom he married in 1960, a son, David, a daughter, Jordy, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
(12) Son and another heir Murdoch family tree update ... the world's most successful media mogul, Rupert Murdoch , has another grandchild to add to his swelling ranks of descendents after daughter Elisabeth gave birth on Saturday to a baby boy, Samson.
(13) He is survived by Marlene, his sons Joss and Andy, daughter Julia, and by seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
(14) Among those who visited Okawa were her eldest son, Hiroshi, 92, and her two-year-old great-grandchild.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Muhammad Ali’s fourth wife Lonnie Ali , stands with Ali’s daughter Laila and a grandchild during the service.
(16) Traditionally they are older people, maybe grandparents who say ‘I don’t want my grandchild going into care.’ But they won’t be prepared for the behavioural and emotional problems which occur because nobody has prepared them for it and they will be unable to cope with the placement longer term.” There are no official figures for the number of children in the UK care system with FASD.
(17) Grandparents (N = 301) were interviewed concerning their relationship with one grandchild; topics included the meaning of the relationship, responsibility toward the grandchild, and satisfaction with the relationship.
(18) This research provides a new understanding of a significant family role, that of adult grandchild.
(19) Dundee is survived by his son, James, his daughter, Terri, six grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
(20) The cub is the grandchild of the zoo's last tiger cub, Hari, the father of Melati.
Grandfather
Definition:
(n.) A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.
Example Sentences:
(1) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
(2) Two G6PD bands, both slightly faster than normal G6PD B, were seen on electrophoresis in both the propositus as well as in his maternal grandfather.
(3) KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE "Having watched 42-year-old Kevin Poole turn out for Derby recently, I wondered 'have any grandfathers ever played league football?'
(4) My great-grandfather helped form the Independent Labour party; had a role in the co-operative movement.
(5) Sometimes it's because of a personal connection - the Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues my grandfather loved the most, which we listened to together, or the Bruckner symphony I associate with our family home in the highlands of Scotland - but the welling-up can also come completely out of the blue.
(6) Anita Anand, the BBC presenter, tweeted during Cameron's visit: "My grandfather was one of the lucky few who survived."
(7) Heshel Melamed, a stern rabbinical paterfamilias, was his maternal grandfather.
(8) She comes from the "cursed" political dynasty in Pakistan : her grandfather, the former president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed in 1979, three years before Fatima was born; her father, the radical politician Murtaza Bhutto, was shot dead by police in 1996; and her aunt, the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was killed in a bombing in 2007.
(9) Maréchal-Le Pen, who was six months old at the time of the attack, said her grandfather's name was wrongly sullied in Carpentras and never "publicly cleansed", that her election would be "a wink at history".
(10) The official guest list for Friday’s anniversary event included senior government, party and military officials, but not Kim, whose weight gain in recent months has been blamed on a liking for rich food and attempts to strengthen his physical resemblance to his grandfather and North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung.
(11) An Australian family that lost three children and a grandfather in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 has published an emotional tribute calling for an end to the “pointless war” in eastern Ukraine.
(12) Evaluation of family members for presence of the urinary inhibitor factor for thiamine diphosphate phosphoryl transferase revealed abnormal levels in a brother, a maternal uncle, and the maternal grandfather of the patient.
(13) The last in a line of fishermen, his 87-year-old grandfather is still catching lobsters.
(14) Her grandfather, who lived a life of sexual scandal and frustrated ambition, introduced her to books.
(15) It was found that the overall fit to the Poisson distribution of the samples from grandfathers was very poor; in contrast, the samples from young fathers fit well.
(16) I believe he shared more with his psychoanalyst grandfather than he liked to admit.
(17) Back in Liverpool, however: "My great-grandfather on my mother's side was a qualified ship's captain, but was never allowed to sail out of Liverpool as such, because the crews would not take orders from a black captain.
(18) This skeletal abnormality also existed in his paternal great-grandfather.
(19) Rylance has lent his support to the Save Our Sands campaign, speaking about his ancestors who lived in Dover, including his great grandfather, who was the captain of a cross -channel ferry.
(20) "That's the farm where my grandfather was born," he says.