Sentence examples for single grandfather from inspiring English sources

Fresh out of law school and days into his first job at a law firm, my then single grandfather got a call from a buddy who said he'd finagled two cheap tickets on a liner to Europe.

Four grandmothers, a single grandfather, and 8 out of 11 healthy full-sibs of affected dogs were also heterozygous.

A likeable cast – ex-pro grandfather, single mother, belittling team-mates turned friends – keep you invested throughout the season, and story landmarks, such as an Adidas boot deal for hitting 200,000 Twitter followers, pull you towards its climax.

During the war, my grandfather single-handedly ran a small clinic to attend to the medical needs of people in his ancestral village.

A single great-great-great grandfather from County Offaly may not make President Obama as Irish as is claimed by the Corrigan Brothers in their catchy song There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama.

Jimmy goes straight from being single to being a grandfather in the half-hour comedy, which premieres Sept. 29.

My grandmother raised four kids, and became a single parent when my grandfather passed on and my younger uncle was a tender 14.

During the Cultural Revolution her grandfather was singled out for persecution and imprisoned, despite being over 70.

In the case of Nancy Dondero, the disenrollment of her extended family came down to a single ancestor: a great-grandfather, Jack Roan, who died in 1942 at age 76.

Say it is not real football, though it is similar to the single-wing offense your grandfather learned in high school.

I like to imagine other new fathers today – as well as mothers, single girls, grannies and grandfathers – sitting on crowded trains, pulling out skeins of wool from their bags, the click of their needles a morning accompaniment to the clickety-clack of the tracks.