How to use grandpa in a sentence
29 example sentences · noun
Grandpa means grandfather. Example: “I'm still much too young to drive, and my grandpa is already far too old.”
Examples of grandpa by meaning
nounAny elderly man, regardless of if he has, or whether one knows he has, grandchildren.
- Pointing to the ‘No Smoking’ sign on the wall, he said we must stop smoking. ‘All right, grandpa!’ someone said.1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 137
More sentences with grandpa
- I'm still much too young to drive, and my grandpa is already far too old.From the entry too
- Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco.From the entry hawk
- Grandpa would give each of the kids a strip of ladyfingers to light on New Year's Day.From the entry ladyfinger
- I’ve bought a chicken in case grandpa should stay to dine.From the entry in case
- His grandpa was driving a straight-six at a time when few people had one.From the entry straight-six
- Grandpa never misses a chance to go to prayer.From the entry prayer
- Grandpa had Johnny going shopping for him.From the entry have someone going
- Grandpa Andy would buy the racing form the day ahead of time so he could handicap the race before he even arrived at the track.From the entry handicap
- Grandpa nods, and I watch, as the boy breaks off a stalk, and eats it raw!2022, Susan E. Erikson, My Mother and Other New Englanders: A Legacy of Faith, Wipf and Stock Publishers. From the entry rhubab
- Tomorrow he would help his grandpa and the neighbors in the matanza.2020, Marvin Guadalupe Romero, Mestizo the Old Man, →ISBN. From the entry matanza
- Grandpa came over to Rosie when he saw she was feeling better.1998 September 15, Jane Breskin Zalben, Beni's Family Treasury for the Jewish Holidays, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 112. From the entry zaide
- "Grandpa, this is Elpidio's mare, right?" I asked, kicking a toeful of dirt in the mare's direction.1982, Max Martinez, Schoolland, page 131. From the entry toeful
- It was early in the morning; Diego was already awake, anticipating the job that his grandpa had given him.2020, Marvin Guadalupe Romero, Mestizo the Old Man, →ISBN. From the entry matanza
- Grandpa alleyooped me up and stood me on the wagon, and started pitching and humming, and I was stamping and humming.2003, Ronald Garver, Heavens to Murgatroid, page 59. From the entry alleyoop
- Grandpa would be in his armchair looking out.2001, Patricia Grace, Irihapeti Ramsden, Jonathan Dennis, The Silent Migration: Ngati Poneke Young Maori Club, 1937-1948, page 17. From the entry kehua
- Grandpa Piper replaced the vase clatteringly back upon the mantleshelf.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 135. From the entry clatteringly
- “What’ll you have to drink, grandpa?” the guard asked.1929 August 2, “‘Where Did the Horses Go?’ Asks Man Taken from Cells for First Time in 53 Years”, in Appeal-Democrat, volume 136…. From the entry uncomprehendedly
- Grandpa Sulivan came out of his room today (Sunday) ranting around to go to town, thinking it was Saturday.1917 January 18, “Champion Hill”, in E. M. [S]haver, J. Van Wyck, editors, The Logan Republican, volume 12, number 32, Logan, Kan.: Shaver…. From the entry once an adult and twice a child
- Grandpa had a ton of secrets.2019, Stacey Matson, Finding Cooper, Scholastic Canada Ltd., →ISBN. From the entry grandsonly
- Your grandlittle calling your boyfriend "grandpa."2013 October 8, @totalsratmove, Twitter, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2022. From the entry grandlittle
- But Nana died when I was seven, and my grandpa, who could put up a mean “stewp”—a thick, chunky soup—when I was thirteen.2010 October 19, Suzan Colon, Cherries in Winter: My Family's Recipe for Hope in Hard Times, illustrated edition, Knopf Doubleday…. From the entry stewp
- Grandpa bought an RCA Color TV.1965 January 3, Lou Sullivan, Diary. From the entry yum
- It was a lot of fun, made especially so because it was my Flossie’s and my first Christmas as grandpa and grandma.1954 December 31, Wheeler Mayo, “What’s Cookin’ in the Cooksons”, in Sequoyah County Times, volume 62, number 32, Sallisaw, Okla., page 3…. From the entry once an adult and twice a child
- The boy seems to be coping quite well, although I had a feeling he wasn't too happy about spending half term in Crete with his old grandpa."2011, Patricia Fenn, Poseidon's Trident, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN. From the entry half term
- One day, as I was doing my grandsonly duty, my grandpa thought it would be funny to act like he was going to push me into the septic tank.2008, Ed Stetzer, “Kingdom Come”, in Sent: Living the Missional Nature of the Church, LifeWay Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry grandsonly
- I would sit at the kitchen table with Zeda, as I called him (Yiddish for grandpa), sipping hot tea from a saucer and sucking on a cube of sugar.1999, Paul Mazursky, Show Me the Magic. From the entry zeda
- Grandpa did not hail from Haifa—he was a Jewish humanist, a spiritual, believing Jew, who complained not in an antique tongue called Hebrew but in colorful, rich, vernacular Yiddish.1993, Philip Roth, Operation Shylock, page 47. From the entry Jewish
- “Grandpa,” Pomeroy’s nom de plume when writing poetry for the Charleston prison magazine, pushed his grap cap back on his head and glanced uncomprehendedly at the guard.1929 August 2, “‘Where Did the Horses Go?’ Asks Man Taken from Cells for First Time in 53 Years”, in Appeal-Democrat, volume 136…. From the entry uncomprehendedly
Meaning of grandpa
- noun Grandfather.
- noun Any elderly man, regardless of if he has, or whether one knows he has, grandchildren.
Questions about grandpa in a sentence
- How do you use grandpa in a sentence?
- Grandpa is used as a noun. For example: “I'm still much too young to drive, and my grandpa is already far too old.”
- What is a short sentence with grandpa?
- “Grandpa bought an RCA Color TV.”
- What does grandpa mean?
- Grandpa means grandfather.
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