Sentence examples for about her paternal from inspiring English sources

Whenever her anxieties overtook her, she would talk about her paternal grandmother, who had played the piano, or about her paternal grandfather, who had fought in the War of Independence, or she'd tell me how close her maternal grandfather had been to Sultan Abdülhamid.

Talking about her paternal grandfather, she'll say that he was supposed to have killed or maimed someone in a barroom brawl and that his children were so frightened of his drunken rages that the first sign of an eruption would send some of them leaping out of second-floor windows to escape.

(Her paternal grandmother was Jewish).

Her paternal grandfather, A. J.

"Why does he have to be so self-righteous?" Ms. Coleman's paternal aunt once asked about her idealistic brother.

But when a female does show up, the male glass frog forgets all about his paternal duties, climbs up on her back, and spends the next few days in the thrall of mating.

When I prompt him about these paternal feelings, he replies with an anecdote.

The second thing that set me on this journey was thinking about my paternal grandfather.

Acerbic, cranky and totally believable, Stanley doesn't hide his resentment about his paternal and financial duties.

Autosomal microsatellites (highly repetitive stretches of DNA inherited from both parents) revealed more about the paternal lineage.

During the presidential campaign, the family learned about one paternal great-great-grandfather, a former slave from South Carolina, but the rest of Mrs. Obama's roots were a mystery.