Example Sentences

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"Goodbye dear grannie, it has been the honour of our lives to have been your granddaughters and we're so very proud of you."

From Reuters • Sep. 18, 2022

Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie issued a tribute to their "dearest grannie" on Saturday, saying how much they missed the late Queen Elizabeth and had thought she would be around forever.

From Reuters • Sep. 18, 2022

Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie issued a tribute to their "dearest grannie" on Saturday, saying how much they missed the late Queen Elizabeth and had thought she would be around forever.

From Reuters • Sep. 18, 2022

"There have been tears and laughter, silences and chatter, hugs and loneliness, and a collective loss for you, our beloved queen and our beloved grannie."

From Reuters • Sep. 17, 2022

This was what grannie felt, he knew; it was the daily draught that kept her spirit young.

From Rose MacLeod by Brown, Alice