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

“Father Knows Best” aired from 1954 to 1960 — bouncing between networks CBS and NBC — and starred Robert Young as the patriarch of the middle-class Anderson family.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 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

I had seen those movies where the patriarch of the family is on his death bed and he calls for his estranged son so that he can make peace before he goes.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom