Example sentences for: patrician

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

  • Eleanor could have been--at times was--a dangerous mix of patrician self-importance, self-delusion, and imperiousness.

  • As a penance for his father’s usury, the patrician Enrico Scrovegni built the simple little hall in 1303 specifically for the great Giotto frescoes.

  • Effectively asking if Whitman's satisfaction translates to yours, the ad emphasizes the separation between this patrician politician and the voter.

  • Singer was, Kazin recalled, fascinated to learn that Wilson, that patrician WASP man of letters, had chosen a Hebrew inscription for his headstone.

  • Another influence was that patrician politician Franklin Roosevelt, who was, like John D. Rockefeller, the focus of Nelson's relentless sycophancy and black-belt bureaucratic infighting.


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