Sentence examples for granny a from inspiring English sources

In Michel Houellebecq's "The Elementary Particles," there's a passage on cruelty which includes a granny, a little boy and a pair of secateurs.

Choirs singing at the cemetery, grandchildren playing a recorder for granny, a band of pipers, fireworks, a champagne bar, butterfly releases – the possibilities are endless.

(Tino learned about the actor from his long-dead father, whose own mother was a passionate Valentino fan, which would make Granny a bit of an anachronism, if you do the math).

From Grampop — who had a quaint, tentative gesture of lifting his thin-skinned hand as if to bestow a blessing or to ask for a halt from the powers that be — he had inherited longevity, and from Granny a country toughness, a wiry fibre that had only slowly bent beneath age and disease.

Other relatives are nearby - notably Galloway's granny, a witchy blind woman who keeps a glass eye in a matchbox - but they are not loving in the usual ways; it is as if the extended family is in a permanent state of competition, and all signs of human frailty must be dextrously hidden from their beady eyes.

One of the things my testers loved about Drummond's very American cake is its bold flavour – where Slater uses 2tsp of instant coffee, she casually pops in 3tbsp, and though it might give granny a heart attack, I'm going to do the same, albeit in proportion to my cake's more modest, British size.

Rudolph W. Giuliani played a Giuliani-hating cabbie and a granny in a floral dress when he was a host in 1997.

"A huge number of scripts were about a granny and a 16-year old on a council estate.

The story plays better when listeners imagine Denis of an unspecified age giving a British granny an eyeful.

There are still occasional outrages when an overzealous TSA screener paws a granny or a toddler.

Yes, Red Riding Hood features a girl in a cape, a doomed granny and a massive chatty wolf.