How to Use father figure in a Sentence

father figure

noun

• The coach was a stern, wise father figure to his players.
• This boss has been a father figure to me for nine years.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 14 Nov. 2021
• Over the aux or on vinyl, here are the best Father's Day songs to jam to with the father figure in your life.
  — Mia Uzzell, Glamour, 19 June 2022
• For younger patrons, the closure meant the loss of a kind of father figure.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• That father figure is Joel, and the game takes on many of his attributes.
  — Julie Muncy, Wired, 12 June 2020
• Go full-on ‘90s father figure and wear them with slouchy socks and shorts.
  — Rebecca Brown, Glamour, 28 Apr. 2022
• But when Julio Franchi met a boy in need of a father figure, his heart grew to meet the challenge.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2023
• For the 74-year-old, Scully was a father figure in more ways than one.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2022
• Here are more than a dozen IPAs to gift the father or father figure in your life.
  — Jeanette Hurt, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• There’s all these men who look at him as a father figure.
  — Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Don’t know what to get dad or the father figure in your life for Father’s Day?
  — Jade Chung-Lee, PCMAG, 16 June 2023
• And one that was in need of a father figure, of a family.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 31 Aug. 2021
• The men had just lost their beloved older sergeant, George Cox, who had been a kind of father figure.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
• Father’s Day is right around the corner and there is still time to buy a present for the father figure in your life.
  — al, 15 June 2022
• Jeff Hyland was a mentor to so many and a father figure to even more.
  — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2022
• And that could be the father figure also in Russia right now.
  — Malina Saval, Variety, 11 Mar. 2022
• Does the father figure in your life have a penchant for pungent pot?
  — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
• It’s a father figure, a strongman figure that attracts all of the orphan souls of the world.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
• Many pieces of clothing may persuade the father figure in your life.
  — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• Along the way, Kerr said, Olson became a kind of father figure.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2021
• In appearance, the tough guy from Holyoke, Mass., is about as far from Ward Cleaver as a father figure can get.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 14 June 2021
• Flashbacks show Mack as a lovable father figure to the wild young Ivan, even when his wife walks out on him.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2020
• Exactly the kind of father figure McRib Jr. needs in its life.
  — Vulture, 4 Mar. 2022
• Myshaun Rice-Nichols, a cousin and father figure to Rice, was killed in a car accident when Rice was 11 years old.
  — CNN, 13 Jan. 2022
• Her loyalty is to Kreese at the end of the day because Kreese is such a father figure to Tory.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022
• So Abbé Faria is sort of a mentor, a father figure and a man with a great appetite for life.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
• What is the most valuable trait that your father (or a father figure in your life) instilled in you?
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 3 June 2021
• Jack gently salutes him, and Ricky tries to hold it together in front of his father figure as the bus pulls away.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 20 July 2022
• When a father figure is absent in the lives of children, kids often look to someone else to fill that void.
  — Gus Malzahn, Orlando Sentinel, 20 June 2024
• Myhre became a father figure to Kamara and made sure college coaches knew about him.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2024

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024