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Example sentences for: matriarch

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The son of an imposing Victorian matriarch himself, he was surprised at how wobbly modern mothers seemed.
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).
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.
The Baldwin matriarch, Carol, sometimes refers to herself in interviews as Rose.