patriarch

Example Sentences

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“Instead of using the fields,” McGahern writes, the aging patriarch “sometimes felt as if the fields had used him.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

Graham’s tweaked, sensitive patriarch is tantalizingly far from the heartbreaking dad of “Adolescence” and the gloriously oddball Riseborough makes the most of her faint-voiced mom’s severity.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

During the campaign, Wine embodied the energy and impatience of Uganda's youth, while Museveni cast himself as the seasoned patriarch, the guarantor of stability.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026

One man’s biographical note stands out: that of Sheikh Sarkar, the patriarch of a clan that provides the “hereditary muscle” for a family of Punjabi landowners.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

To me he was a patriarch with authority over me, but he seemed to surrender that authority the moment I passed through his door.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover