Sentence examples for grandson from inspiring English sources

The word "grandson" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the male grandchild of a person, or to the grandson of a particular thing, such as a church or a nation. Example sentence: My grandfather was proud to welcome his first grandson into the family.

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grandson

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A son of one's child.

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This year Berdymukhamedov did not enter a race, but his grandson, Kerimguly, won a short horseback sprint.

Mandela's grandson and heir Mandla, sombre in a long black coat and black tie, stood ramrod straight with eyes fixed on the middle distance.

For 36 years afterwards, Estela devoted herself to finding her grandson.

Her grandson had been swallowed by the complicity and silence that surrounded so many of the regime's horrendous crimes.

Over three decades of work, 113 cases had been resolved by the slowly ageing grandmothers, but despite this, Estela Carlotto's missing grandson remained unaccounted for, which left a deep, unhealed wound in the nation's psyche.

"God has given me a long life so that I could live to meet my grandson," Hortensia said to the press.

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Meanwhile, laws protecting the Chilean pine tree state that only the great-grandson of the man who planted the tree can chop it down, and while legislation allows public workers to strike, they must make up their hours another time.

He said he was particularly pleased to be receiving a knighthood as he is the great-great-grandson of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the civil engineer who was knighted in the 19th century for his work designing and overseeing the building of an enclosed sewer network for London.

Shane Mortimer – the most senior elder of the Ngambri people, and the great-great-great-great-grandson of OnYong, whose skull became a sugar bowl – says the keeping place should be built where the Aboriginal Embassy stands today.

The company's founder, Henry Ford, would have been impressed to see his great-grandson, William Clay Ford, today's chairman and chief executive, help to install a pair of giant blue ovals on Ford's world headquarters.The return of the company's traditional logo is a highly symbolic step.

As for Viktor's branch of the family, under the benevolent Emperor Franz Josef they were, writes Edmund de Waal, Viktor's great-grandson, "so perfectly assimilated they …disappeared into Vienna .Among the other ponderous ornaments of that assimilation, the netsuke sat uneasily.

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