great-grandfathers
- plural of great-grandfather.
Example Sentences
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Mwaba comes from a family of miners - his great-grandfathers and one grandfather worked down the mines and his father above the ground.
From BBC • Jul. 25, 2025
We search for clues and craft paragraphs that give a hint to how soldiers and sailors — who could have shared a beer with our fathers, grandfathers or great-grandfathers — lived their short lives.
From Seattle Times • May 28, 2023
"People have to know what our great-grandfathers, our grandfathers and grandmothers went through... as many are beginning to forget what May 9 is and what it stands for."
From Reuters • May 7, 2023
And it may offer surprises for people throughout the coal fields and scattered around the country who had never learned that their great-grandfathers had gone to war in West Virginia a hundred years ago.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2021
A gift for a great-grandfather from North Dakota, maybe for all great-grandfathers.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
