Example sentences for: patrician

How can you use “patrician” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Plimpton got lost in his list at one point, but despite referring to one of the contributors to the display's soundtrack as "Cecille Dion," he brought to the event his patrician sonorities and his fabled familiarity with fireworks.

  • The day before his brother is due to be released from prison, the now-skinheaded Danny responds to a high-school assignment to write an essay about a civil rights leader with a paper on Hitler's Mein Kampf . The scholarly, patrician black principal (Avery Brooks) threatens the boy with expulsion unless he delivers a substitute essay the following day: an analysis of his brother's crime and its impact on both their family and society.

  • Bush the elder came of age when New England Republicans led the party, and patrician manners were boons to a Republican.

  • George Bush--a professed admirer of TR--is the Tarzan of our day: A patrician Yalie (Lord Greystoke), and at the same time a Texan redneck (Tarzan), engaged in wildcatting (could there be a more metaphorically resonant term?)

  • Bacall's performance has echoes of her Tony Award- winning Margo Channing role, all patrician bite and bluster.


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