grandparent

[ˈɡrænperənt]

Definition:
1. A parent of your father or mother.

Use 'grandparent' in a sentence:

1. One month ago, I became a grandparent for the first time which I always wanted my children get another thing to do in life.
2. An estimated 6m British people have an Irish parent or grandparent.
3. My grandparents are rather ancient.
4. Help your child send an email to a grandparent, aunt, or uncle.
5. Many are being raised by a single parent or grandparent.
6. "in the 1960s we were all a little wild and couldn't get away from home far enough or fast enough to prove we could do it on our own," says Christine Crosby, publisher of Grand, a magazine for grandparents ．
7. I'm not a grandparent, thank god.
8. She was my last grandparent and I was her only grandchild.
9. His grandparents would take care of him when his parents were busy.
10. This directory has a parent and “grandparent” directory, as we’ll see later. And pwd shows the directory’s absolute pathname.
11. Ask a grandparent about their childhood.
12. Every parent has only one child and every grandparent has only one grand-child.
13. His grandparents were the only two people living with him.
14. If you dream of being a grandparent you will have a happy domestic life with minimal problems.
15. Every week, Julia would go to visit her grandparents.
16. I had no grandparent to stand proudly for me.
17. Parents and grandparents who wish to visit their family in Canada can also apply for the parent and grandparent Super Visa.
18. As a small boy he had spent most of his time with his grandparents.
19. Older people and women made the mistake slightly more often, but that may be because grandparents have more grandchildren to mix up than parents have children.
20. No statistics show the number of grandparents like Garza who are moving closer to the children and grandchildren ．
21. My grandparents were quite well off.
22. The traditional image of an old grandparent is out-of-date and out-of-touch.
23. In some cases, entire families are surviving on the pension of a grandparent.
24. Jessica's grandparents took her out for the day.
25. A grandparent can help with the household chores as well as child care.
26. The child abode with his grandparents for three years before being returned to his home.
27. My grandparents emigrated to Canada to try their luck there.
28. The remaining 22% lived in the home of another family member ( such as a grandparent, in-law or sibling), a non-relative, or in group quarters like college dormitories.
29. The children are staying with their grandparents.
30. This month millions of American kids can forget about classroom bells and set off for grandparents' homes, sleep-away camps and lifeguard stands ．
31. Often a grandparent could perform the role of main carer.
32. As a grandparent, our parenting modeling continues.
33. Part of its mission would be to promote the risks and realities associated with being a grandparent.
34. This model worked for our parents or grandparent and more obviously for Corporate America.
35. An estimated 6m people in britain-almost one-and-a-half times Ireland's population-have an Irish parent or grandparent.
36. One weekend, I went to visit my grandparents in the countryside.
37. It's a good choice to buy one for your grandparents.
38. My grandparents have never had a problem accepting me.
39. But I have yet to see a ruse that can shut up a parent or grandparent.
40. He used to spend childhood summers with his grandparents.
41. I mean, my cousin and I both share a grandparent.
42. Almost every grandparent wants to be with his or her grandchildren and is willing to make sacrifices.
43. I'm a grandparent - seven times over!
44. Many studies show that older parents — today's grandparents — would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.
45. The parents and grandparents of your students are resources and assets for their children.
46. These days, the family gatekeeper may be a mother or a father, a grandparent, a housekeeper or a nanny.
47. The toddler walked into it as the mother talked to a grandparent who works at the bank.
48. The remaining 22% lived in the home of another family member (such as a grandparent, in-law or sibling), a non-relative, or in group quarters like college dormitories.
49. Her grandparents came over from Ireland during the famine.
50. Miguel Maeda, 42, who has a master's degree and works in public health, was the first in his family to go to college, which has allowed him to achieve a sense of financial stability his parents and grandparents never did.
51. The boys were taken to see their grandparents most weekends.
52. The three-stage life of full-time education, followed by continuous work, and then complete retirement may have worked for our parents or even grandparents, but it is not relevant today.
53. Tammy was raised by her grandparents.
54. Grandparents are often tempted to spoil their grandchildren whenever they come to visit.
55. The grandparents sigh and say how things have changed for the worse.
56. I have vivid memories of my grandparents.