Sentence examples similar to Grand prize from inspiring English sources

When Lillian was a younger woman, she used to regularly take the train from New Jersey to Pennsylvania to visit her niece and her granddaughter, prizing the visits with the young girls because, she would say, I lost my daughter.

He intro­duces a grandson, who writes a graffito in "an ambitious font," and lets slip that the boy has recently won his school's form prize; when his granddaughter announces that the dinosaurs were killed by "asteroid, or volcano," he writes, "I wish she had said 'volcanism,' but what can I do?

Established in 1986 by Ruth Lilly, the great-great-granddaughter of Eli Lilly, the annual prize that bears her name honors a living American poet whose lifetime accomplishments merit exceptional recognition.

Granddaughter of old Medicine Dress.

"Granddaughter," she said.

Granddaughter of Cass Gilbert, architect.

Granddaughter of Margaret Schieffelin Trevor and Henry Graff Trevor and Ensign Bennett Pardee, MD and Clara Burton Pardee.

Granddaughter of President Grover Cleveland.

Leaving his loving wife of 55 years, Mildred, prized children Steve Kathy, Martha, Jonon; beloved granddaughter Julia; caring brother, Dr. Murray Rose.

There are nonetheless some surprises: Newton-John, we learn, is the granddaughter of Max Born, a Nobel-prize winning physicist, a Jew who left Germany with his family in 1933.

Dahl's granddaughter, Sophie, one of the judges of the prize, described Mr Gum as "everything the Roald Dahl Funny Prize was invented for: outstanding, original, ageless and irreverent fiction married with the madcap illustrations of David Tazzyman".