patron
Example Sentences
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She turned back to the other staff in the kitchen, busily putting plates together for patrons waiting for their orders.
From Literature
Earlier this month, Princess Eugenie stepped down as patron of charity Anti-Slavery International, a role she had held for seven years.
From BBC
There’s something determinedly hopeful about “Kim’s Convenience,” which like the store it’s named after, wants its patrons to leave satisfied.
From Los Angeles Times
Holbein, Ms. Goldring writes, was always able to “distance himself from patrons who had outlived their usefulness.”
Castro almost fell off a cliff in the early 1990s when he lost his Soviet patron, but he had moves then, and he made them.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
