(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.
Grandson
Definition:
(n.) A son's or daughter's son.
Example Sentences:
(1) After getting his Stanford MBA, the grandson went to Russia in 1990 and developed one of the most successful investment funds operating in the country.
(2) Johnson’s family paid tribute to the “exceptional son, brother, grandson and nephew”.
(3) He's suspected of killing 69-year-old physician William Lewis Corporon and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, outside the community center of Greater Kansas City.
(4) Insept Mom" (a notice attached to her five-year-old grandson's door), a short inventory of clubs she'd encountered that wouldn't allow girls or women.
(5) Geza, a small 69-year-old man with bright eyes, knows how tough it has become for single parents to look after a child in poor villages like Lipunga: his own grandson was sent to an orphanage for a few months after the child's mother died.
(6) Ormond, grandson of Sargent’s sister, has been working for years on the definitive catalogue of the artist’s enormous output, and has reached volume nine.
(7) We have no money to treat my grandsons or to feed ourselves.
(8) Cody Tennant, his grandson, succeeds as the 4th Baron Glenconner.
(9) Recombination between the four loci 52A, F9, fragile X, and ST14 is significantly decreased in meioses giving rise to the affected grandsons of normal transmitting males, when compared to families where there are no apparent normal transmitting males.
(10) We report a four generation family in which there was a subject with minimal expression and another with non-penetrance between a great grandfather and his great grandson.
(11) "It was Sunday and Ovsanna's mother was coming back from church; the priest had just announced that every neighbourhood in the city had to be emptied in three days," says her grandson Frédéric, who has preserved the family story.
(12) Only Mandla, the eldest grandson, has followed him into parliament.
(13) I played with my 11-month-old grandson, Rohen McCrory, after the contest.
(14) Another co-author, John Hemingway, is the grandson of Ernest Hemingway , who shone a spotlight on the San Fermín festival in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.
(15) We’ve just had the gravestone removed because it’s been rather badly defaced one way and another with people chipping away at it.” I tell Gabrielle that I once interviewed Oscar Wilde’s grandson , who was pleading with admirers not to cover his grandfather’s tomb in Père Lachaise, Paris, with lipstick kisses because it was damaging the stone.
(16) Preston grew up just a few miles down the road in Worthing, his American mother the daughter of a professor of English at Princeton university, his father the public school-educated great great great grandson of Earl Grey.
(17) Originally from Boston, Twersky was a father of five and was the grandson of the renowned rabbi Yosef Soloveitchik, credited with being a key figure in the Modern Orthodox movement.
(18) George P Bush, the nephew and grandson of the former presidents, will soon take charge of the General Land Office – one of two Texas state agencies that have joined an industry lawsuit to overturn the ban.
(19) Nadezhda Dvornikova, a 57-year-old pensioner, held her grandson by the hand as she walked the halls of Moscow's Polytechnical College.
(20) Of course Brahim approved of the choice of his grandson's name.