patrician

Example Sentences

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For many Americans, the nationally televised hearing was the first close look at the patrician, grey-haired former FBI director.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

Now forgotten, Dillon, Read & Co. typified the Wall Street of roll-top desks and patrician dignity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

This was despite the fact that Bush didn't drink and his very patrician Connecticut lineage went all the way back to President Franklin Pierce.

From Salon • May 16, 2025

Cutler was struck by how Stewart’s experiences differed from the “childhood of privilege and formality” he had imagined, based on her patrician image.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2024

Richard Owen, the paleontologist who hovered over England’s natural historians like a patrician falcon, descended from the Royal College of Surgeons, to verify and catalog Darwin’s fossil skeletons.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee