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Example sentences for "grandnephew"

Lexicographically close words:
grandmere; grandmither; grandmother; grandmotherly; grandmothers; grandniece; grando; grandpap; grandpapa; grandpappy
  1. Only an hour earlier the grandnephew had been up to say that the fire had crossed Market Street that afternoon.

  2. The boy stood to her less as her grandnephew than as the legacy of little Serena, the "kind big boy" in whose strong arms her frail life had ended.

  3. We will keep our own counsel, Maid Margery, and hope that the dream may grow into something more than a boy's first romance, if my grandnephew is the boy you think him.

  4. She loved her grandnephew as a son; while she rejoiced daily that the young man was growing more and more like her own lost Arturo, whose name he bore.

  5. For several months reports have reached Mrs. Hutchins that her grandnephew has not been receiving the best of care from the relatives who have charge of him.

  6. When Caesar's grandnephew Augustus was master of Rome, he sent an army under Varus into the forests far from the Rhine.

  7. Caesar's successor was his grandnephew Octavius, usually called Augustus, which was one of his titles.

  8. Once she was on her knees, her grandnephew pulled off his red cap and bowed to Ugolini with a sweeping gesture.

  9. She rested one hand on the shoulder of a boy, her grandnephew Vittorio.

  10. The contessa's grandnephew leaned elegantly against the back of the old lady's chair, the fingers of his chubby hands interlinked.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grandnephew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.