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.

  • Sarrià retains the feel of a small Catalan town, while the atmosphere of Pedralbes is patrician — residential villas with gardens and the city’s most expensive real estate.

  • From the start, Hiss, impeccably groomed and eerily calm ("It might be someone else who was on trial," one journalist marveled), relied on his patrician credentials.

  • Museum populism began with an unlikely figure: a patrician medievalist by the name of Thomas Hoving, who was the director of the Met from 1967 to 1977.

  • He now leaves that mission to two New Yorkers: Louise Slaughter, a Democrat, and Amo Houghton, a patrician Republican.


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