Sentence examples for paternal from inspiring English sources

It commemorates the sectarian murder of my paternal grandfather's brother, who was beaten and stabbed to death by a loyalist mob very close by during the Troubles.

It's difficult for me now to separate my warm feelings for Shimla as a tourist destination from my paternal connections to it.

I would not have believed you if you'd told me picking up shit wouldn't feel disgusting but, instead, produce a subtle yet satisfying paternal pleasure.

But in many cases, these women found other ways to perpetuate their own surnames, thus cheating the companion tradition that had arisen from that of the wife taking her husband's surname: that of the children inheriting the paternal surname, too.

Although his paternal grandfather had been an active, old-fashioned Highland Liberal, Kennedy started his own political life at the age of 15 in the Labour party.

I had been brought up on the Andean tales of my paternal grandfather, a former railway engineer in Chile and Bolivia.

He got it on the second take - spot-on timing, silky paternal vocal quality, and utterly persuasive.

His son, a cautious district commissioner, lives dutifully in the paternal shadow, hoping that his own son, Carl Joseph, a well-meaning but feckless young officer, will somehow justify the newly glorious Trotta name.The action takes place mainly outside Vienna, in the provinces and borderlands of a weakened multinational empire, though there are also worldly set pieces in the Austrian capital.