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Example sentences for: patriarch

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The patriarch protects, is good, powerful, wise.
"Nelson," said the patriarch, "whom are we trying to impress?"
Carter, the family's patriarch, was certifiably rural; he grew up in southwestern Virginia's Poor Valley.
Lloyd Shearer, the patriarch of the clan, was for many years the editor of Parade magazine, which, during the Reagan era, interspersed its celebrity profiles and sensible recipes with anxious warnings about the dangers of the nuclear arms race.
Abraham, the first Jewish Patriarch, led his people here in search of “the land of milk and honey”; Jesus Christ was born, lived, ministered, and died here; and Mohammed, the founder of Islam, visited Jerusalem during his heavenly “Night Journey. ”