matriarch

Example Sentences

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But I always think back to when I was very, very young, there was a kind of matriarch here in the neighborhood.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

Part of that idiom is the boisterous humour that the Punjab region is known for, portrayed in part through Sajawal's mother, the imposing matriarch Sohni Ammi.

From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026

By the time she put the property on the market, the reality TV matriarch confirmed that she had moved out and into another estate she purchased in the same tony community of Hidden Hills.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 17, 2026

But as the satirically pompous, high-strung Moira Rose, the uncomfortably broke former soap opera queen and matriarch of the hit Canadian sitcom “Schitt’s Creek,” O’Hara achieved universal acclaim and endless memeability.

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2026

There was no explicable way she knew it, but she sensed this woman was the leader of this peculiar group, its matriarch.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray