Sentence examples for grandfather failed from inspiring English sources

I'm chagrined that my own grandfather failed to leave a semi-automatic rifle in my stocking when I was a boy, but that sort of thoughtful holiday gift giving isn't at issue.

Two of my great uncles and my wife's grandfather failed to return from the war.

Hogg succeeded where both father and grandfather failed by helping Lancashire win the County Championship title in 2011.

But they never do, at least not for the better; and although I sought to be as patient as I could, I increasingly resembled the ignorant, bustling child who grows annoyed when its grandfather fails to accompany its lunges to and fro.

The two quarrelling grandfathers failed to agree a marriage settlement, with disastrous consequences.

The Court of Appeals held in this case, however, that the "grandfather provision" failed even the rationality test.

There in the mountains where the grandfather once failed, the grandson now returns.

But his country also faces problems — notably, chronic food shortages and human rights abuses — that his father and grandfather either failed to or neglected to address.

Indeed, Marie's own great-grandfather tragically failed to prevent a suffragette from slashing away at one of the museum's most beautiful paintings.

A last-ditch attempt by the Australian Motoring Enthusiast party senator, Ricky, Muir to remove the "grandfathering" arrangement failed on Thursday evening, when the Senate voted 36 against and 25 in favour of the amendment.

But at one point she said something that has left me haunted: she was curious why we have such respect for her grandfather when he "failed".