GRANDFATHER in a Sentence

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Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little trip, adding that he meant to set out that very evening.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRANDFATHER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
grandfather
 n.  the father of your father or mother
Classic Sentence: (196 in 14 pages)
1  The family who occupy the house had for their grandfather Guillaume van Kylsom, the old gardener, dead long since.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
2  He added the "grandfather," which produced a good effect.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
3  The grandfather caused Jean Valjean to vanish.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
4  This child had been the colonel's joy in his solitude; but the grandfather had imperatively claimed his grandson, declaring that if the child were not given to him he would disinherit him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
5  Gillenormand tolerated; and the father answered them with very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
6  When he emerged from the hands of Aunt Gillenormand, his grandfather confided him to a worthy professor of the most purely classic innocence.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
7  He did not love his grandfather much, as the latter's gayety and cynicism repelled him, and his feelings towards his father were gloomy.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
8  One evening, on his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND
9  By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion for his grandfather.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
10  "He is getting decidedly wild," said his grandfather.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
11  Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little trip, adding that he meant to set out that very evening.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT
12  On abandoning his grandfather's opinions for the opinions of his father, he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS
13  His aunt did not inform his grandfather of this refusal for fear of exasperating him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI—RES ANGUSTA
14  When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact in a letter which was cold but full of submission and respect.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT
15  It was three years since he had left his grandfather.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  Her grandfather died ten years ago.
2  I don'nt know who my grandfather was.
3  Gorky was often the victim of his grandfather's tyranny.
4  My grandfather was a career teacher; it's the only job he'd ever done.
5  She was pretty much raised by a grandfather she calls an anarchist and studied cultural anthropology at the University of Wisconsin.
6  I remembered my grandfather in my dream last night.
7  His grandfather was a fine raconteur.
8  My generation behaves differently from my father's and grandfather's.
9  The painting my grandfather gave me turned out to be a Constable.
10  I can still vividly remember my grandfather teaching me to play cards.
11  My grandfather used to raise sheep in Wales.
12  As a child I remember being riveted by my grandfather's appearance.
13  Tod's grandfather taught him to shoot a rifle.
14  He said that he was going to stick with the traditions established by his grandfather.
15  My grandfather is still living, but my grandmother is dead.