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

Dane starred as family patriarch Cal Jacobs on hit HBO teen drama show Euphoria.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

Family patriarch Joseph Guinnip joined the throngs of people who headed west to take hold of America’s Manifest Destiny, leaving Steuben County, N.Y., in the 1830s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

Lindo played the frustrated patriarch, Walter Lee, and won some strong reviews.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

If there's one person in our family who deserves the credit for the close-knit relationships between us cousins, it's Dayee Mehrdad, otherwise known as the true patriarch of our massive brood.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi