Sample Sentences for
paternal
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paternal as in:  paternal grandmother

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She is his paternal grandmother.
paternal = related through the father
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    Many of my paternal relatives are still in West Virginia.
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    She also has a paternal half-sister who is 8 years old.
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    The captain's tone was one of paternal disappointment.  (source)
    paternal = like a father's
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    Father's brother or father's father's brother, if the relationship was on the paternal side her maiden name would be Westing.  (source)
    paternal = relating to a father
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    Jody climbed to the top of the fence and hung his feet over and looked paternally down at the mare.  (source)
    paternally = in a manner that is like that of a father
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    He takes her to visit his paternal grandmother across town.  (source)
    paternal = relating to a father
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    ...he had visited her in her paternal mansion.  (source)
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    Equally formed for domestic life, and attached to country pleasures, their home was the home of affection and comfort; and to complete the picture of good, the acquisition of Mansfield living, by the death of Dr. Grant, occurred just after they had been married long enough to begin to want an increase of income, and feel their distance from the paternal abode an inconvenience.  (source)
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paternal as in:  paternal attitude

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    Juan took a paternal interest in the boy and offered him sound guidance over the years.
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    When Franz met McCandless, his long-dormant paternal impulses were kindled anew.  (source)
    paternal = fatherly
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    Hammond was looking at him in that patient, paternal way.  (source)
    paternal = father-like
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    He feels — paternal toward the students here.  (source)
    paternal = father-like
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    "A word to the wise, Harry," said Lockhart paternally as they entered the building through a side door.  (source)
    paternally = with kindness and concern like that of a father
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    Paternalistic—we show our prejudice in our paternalism—we downgrade their dignity.†  (source)
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    Louie idolized Pete, who watched over him and their younger sisters, Sylvia and Virginia, with paternal protectiveness.  (source)
    paternal = like a father
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    The boy looked up at Marten, still smiling paternally down on all this.†  (source)
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    The Army needs a lot of really grown-up men in the middle grades; it's a paternalistic organization.†  (source)
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    "Sit down, Daisy," Tom's voice groped unsuccessfully for the paternal note.  (source)
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    Instead of restoring the child to the seat, the man himself sat down, holding the boy against his own chest, rubbing his hand across the boy's forehead paternally.†  (source)
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    You will note that during the years of seventy and seventy-one, when specific restraints in production were self-imposed-I repeat, self-imposed-by these leaders of industry, the resulting economic recession was far less severe than in-slide twelve, please-the so-called paternalistic regulation of the marketplace by government interventionists.†  (source)
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    One paternal kind precaution he had taken to ensure my having a companion.  (source)
    paternal = like the concern of a father
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