Great-grandfather

"Great-grandfather" in a Sentence (11 examples)

The father of a father is a grandfather, a grandfather's father is a great-grandfather, a great-grandfather's father is a great-great-grandfather, but no word has been decided upon for the generations before great-great-grandfather.

Tom's great-grandfather was born blind.

He is my great-grandfather.

My father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather all had the same name as I have.

My great-grandfather was the leader of a gang.

I'll probably be a great-grandfather by the time I'm 75.

My great-grandfather was a gang leader.

I was named after my great-grandfather.

When I was a little boy, my father and I went to Boston to visit my great-grandfather.

My grandfather predeceased my great-grandfather.

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The new bek's great-grandfather had passed every night of his life under the sky, on the back of a pony or in the felt walls of a ger, and Buljan retained the ancestral contempt for cities and city dwellers.

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