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Example sentences for: matriarch

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

Grove's profile wasn't that nasty (after its publication, Johnson sent an appreciative don't-worry-I'm-not-mad note to Post matriarch Katharine Graham).
The son of an imposing Victorian matriarch himself, he was surprised at how wobbly modern mothers seemed.
The Baldwin matriarch, Carol, sometimes refers to herself in interviews as Rose.
Northerners were also amused at a Southern matriarch's saying to a tardy arrival at the dinner table, We've waited for you the way one pig waits for another.