patriarch
Example Sentences
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As the patriarch of TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,” Jim Bob Duggar became synonymous with a conservative Christian lifestyle when the show aired in 2008; it garnered high ratings and ran for 10 seasons.
From Los Angeles Times
A fictional backstory of patriarch SP Chopra’s extended family’s demise, “The Complex” dissolves many of Mahajan’s — an associate professor of literary arts at Brown University — previous literary touchstones, ranging from musical inspiration to cinematic immersion.
From Los Angeles Times
Who do you play in “The Madison”? I play the patriarch in the Taylor Sheridan series about a family that moves West to recover from a tragedy.
Hell, most Old Testament patriarchs aren’t as demanding of loyalty and filial supplication as Rupert Murdoch, save for God himself.
From Salon
“Instead of using the fields,” McGahern writes, the aging patriarch “sometimes felt as if the fields had used him.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
