Example sentences for: patrician

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

  • The capital of Emilia-Romagna is a thriving town with a certain patrician atmosphere to its beautifully-preserved historic center lined by loggias or arcade-covered sidewalks, 21 miles of them.

  • 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.

  • 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?)

  • Lukacs, who came of age in Hungary while Hitler was in power, has long described himself as a "reactionary"--not a Gingrichian rightist but a partisan of the patrician mores of pre-World War I Europe.

  • At the southern end of Cardine V, the patrician House of the Stags (Casa dei Cervi) is named after its frescoes of two stags being attacked by hounds.


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