(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.
Grandmother
Definition:
(n.) The mother of one's father or mother.
Example Sentences:
(1) As of July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.
(2) She said it could indicate Bernardi’s grandmother was Indigenous.
(3) As a mother and a grandmother I am deeply concerned about the impact that fracking will have on our environment, our water sources, air and way of life.
(4) (I leave it implicit, but that's the age the child would be when his — or her — grandmother completed two full terms in the White House.)
(5) "Everyone and their grandmother would have done it better, of course."
(6) I found it very moving,” she said, “an extraordinary period in our lives too that is now coming to an end.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Four-year-old Torin Weston, dressed as Richard III, waits with his grandmother outside the cathedral.
(7) Britain’s most controversial landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson, whose property empire extends to nearly 1,000 homes in Kent, have begun evicting families with more than two children, banned tenants on zero-hours contracts and thrown out extended families where the grandmother comes to stay.
(8) And as someone who spent a lot of time with their grandmother, it seemed only natural that bank robbers would meet their match in a benevolent pensioner.
(9) Presumably one of these "gangbangers" is Carmen Ortega (pdf), a 62-year-old grandmother of 14 with Alzheimer's who has been ordered deported to the Dominican Republic, a country where she has no remaining family, after living in the US for 40 years.
(10) The authors present three cases of multiple, intra-cranial meningiomatosis with contact hyperostosis affecting the grandmother, mother and daughter, in a very stereotypic manner.
(11) My grandmother doesn't understand unpaid internships .
(12) The origin of the defect arises spontaneously in the grandmother of the proband and must be assumed to be a de novo mutation.
(13) It’s something that has always baffled and amused me about my grandmother.
(14) He survived but two days later his 13-year-old sister died, followed by his grandmother eight days later.
(15) The mother, aunt, and grandmother had varied features of the condition.
(16) The paternal grandmother was thought to carry the abnormal Factor X I gene, although her Factor XI level was normal, because of a significant bleeding history.
(17) They had a grandmother, her daughter and her grandchild all in the same ward.
(18) Bond yields continue to soar and it's become increasingly clear that markets read the papers like my grandmother used to: only registering the bad news.
(19) There has already been speculation that the baby’s birth could coincide with the 89th birthday of its great-grandmother the Queen on 21 April.
(20) The members of this family have since been followed-up regularly by the author, examination of the corneas of the grandmother and the grand'daughter made by electron microscopy, the morphology compared, and an attempt made to establish the progression of the lesion.