Sentence examples for grandad from inspiring English sources

When I was small, my brother and I had a horrible car accident driving back from the seaside with my grandad and uncle.

"Just over a week ago my grandad died," Catrin, a year five pupil from a Colywn Bay primary school said.

Webb's book, about a little girl who's lost her grandad, deals sensitively with the discomfort of grief's etiquette, too: Kate is bemused by adult mourners laughing at fond memories, unsure whether and when she is allowed to feel happy.

At school, other children want to know why grandad always comes to collect me.

I had a seizure because I was severely epileptic and my grandad had to hang me upside down and give me the kiss of life.

He created a makeshift studio at home and started DJing at older people's weddings ("They paid more"), playing the northern soul and Motown tunes his mother listened to, "standing there watching my grandad make out with my grandma for six hours".

Now the old people like my grandad want to have it again".

It is like watching your grandad break dancing.

My half-brother's grandad is younger than my stepdad.

He said: "My grandad is Irish, so there's a chance I can play for them.

But while Pizzorno's comments have a touch of "the good old days" grandad chat about them, he insists that rock'n'roll will "never die".