Wondering how to use Grandparent in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as forebear or forbear.
Grandparent meaning
The parent of someone's parent.
Using Grandparent
- The main meaning on this page is: The parent of someone's parent.
- Useful related words include: forebear, forbear.
- In the example corpus, grandparent often appears in combinations such as: or grandparent, grandparent or, grandparent and.
Context around Grandparent
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Grandparent
- In this selection, "grandparent" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, great, jewish, parent, live, gets and looking stand out and add context to how "grandparent" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a great grandparent your life and a parent grandparent or great. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "grandparent" sits close to words such as aficionados, aiadmk and airships, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with grandparent
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Maybe a grandparent suffers from the disease. (7 words)
Calgary senior falls victim to elaborate “grandparent’s scam”. (9 words)
Much loved grandparent to Jess, Alfie, Kyle, Oliver and Parker. (10 words)
It’s a gift for those who are in areas of this country who may have a parent or grandparent who doesn’t quite see it like this, but they see us, and they see that we just love each other. (41 words)
Others spoke of the need for case managers to oversee kinship placements, an alternative to foster care in which a child temporarily removed from their parents can stay with a grandparent, family member or close friend. (36 words)
And then there’s the scurrilously under-handed ripoff in which a grandparent gets a call saying a grandchild has been involved in an accident or some other emergency, and money must be wired immediately. (35 words)
One can keep a child from visiting a grandparent in another city easily enough, but what happens when the child and grandparent live in the same household? (27 words)
Example sentences (20)
So, if there is a grandparent and an uncle still alive, the grandparent will inherit and not the uncle.
One can keep a child from visiting a grandparent in another city easily enough, but what happens when the child and grandparent live in the same household?
If all people who speak Sami or have a parent, grandparent, or great-grandparent who speaks or spoke Sami are included, the number reaches 70,000.
Aliadov was able to obtain Israeli citizenship thanks to Israel’s Law of Return, which allows any Jew or person with at least one Jewish grandparent to become an Israeli citizen.
Although David hasn’t yet shared much on his Instagram, his posts indicate that he loves being a grandparent and he’s a bit of a motorhead.
And then there’s the scurrilously under-handed ripoff in which a grandparent gets a call saying a grandchild has been involved in an accident or some other emergency, and money must be wired immediately.
As a grandparent, looking back, I did not have the worry about my children being the victims of a school shooting like parents nowadays.
Calgary senior falls victim to elaborate “grandparent’s scam”.
For decades Israel has granted automatic citizenship to anyone who has at least one Jewish grandparent or who has converted to Judaism, or is married to a Jew.
He highlights the types of families as being nuclear, single-parent families, extended families, childless families, stepfamilies, and grandparent families.
He is a native of the New York City / New Jersey area but has also called home the Texas area and his grandparent's native Croatia in southern Europe.
If you met your great-grandparents or are a great-grandparent, your life can easily touch 300 years of history.
I’m gonna guess that you aren’t any sort of parent yourself, despite your account number suggesting that you should be a grandparent by now.
It can be referred to as a grandparent or bail scam.
It really shut off a lot of that communication between my grandparent's generation and my mother's generation.
It’s a gift for those who are in areas of this country who may have a parent or grandparent who doesn’t quite see it like this, but they see us, and they see that we just love each other.
Maybe a grandparent suffers from the disease.
Much loved grandparent to Jess, Alfie, Kyle, Oliver and Parker.
Others spoke of the need for case managers to oversee kinship placements, an alternative to foster care in which a child temporarily removed from their parents can stay with a grandparent, family member or close friend.
Read to a younger sibling or a grandparent in his or her dotage (again, holding the treat could help).
Common combinations with grandparent
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- or grandparent 12×
- grandparent or 10×
- grandparent and 6×
- the grandparent 6×
- and grandparent 5×
- parent grandparent 5×
- jewish grandparent 5×
- as grandparent 5×
- grandparent to 4×
- with grandparent 4×