Example Sentences

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For these survivors—the grandmothers and great-grandmothers who populate many romantic fantasies—“Italy” seldom meant idyllic country vistas and cardiologists’ dream culinary joys.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

McDonald’s performance opens a window onto the grandmothers and great-grandmothers whose lives were even more tragically curtailed.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2025

And in 1917, her heavily pregnant great-grandmothers “swelled with orange heat, like the fruiting of giant persimmons.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2023

It was my great-grandmothers, who I never met.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2022

Maybe for once our great-grandmothers would stop acting like Vonetta and Fern and behave like sisters.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia