Example sentences for: patrician

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

  • Something like this vision inspired Theodore Roosevelt, the asthmatic Yankee patrician who turned himself into a cowboy and, as an ex-president, nearly died while exploring a tributary of the Amazon in Brazil, in an adventure that might have been scripted by Burroughs.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Under Etruscan domination, Rome had been a monarchy until a revolt in 510 b.c. established a patrician republic, which lasted five centuries.


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