How to Use patriarch in a Sentence

patriarch

noun

• Our grandfather was the family's patriarch.
• The tribe's patriarch ruled for 20 years before his death.
• Of the 14 men who joined the group, many are the patriarchs of large families.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023
• At a midnight Mass, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem asked people to look for the light.
  — Andrew jeong, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
• Williams played the patriarch of the Weasley family, who is also a member of the Order of the Phoenix.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2022
• Jones was the patriarch of a family for whom Jones Valley, a large swath of south Huntsville, is named.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 16 July 2022
• The Dolan family’s money came from the patriarch, Charles Dolan, who is now in his nineties.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Each player skated over to shake hands with the patriarch.
  — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2022
• The very same family that fed me, the patriarch of the family is a pastor.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
• Taba finds the bat that Ammon, the late family patriarch, used to beat Ron’s dog to death.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 May 2022
• Le’s Fried Pho is made with the ingredients from the family patriarch’s pho, with some of the broth.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2023
• The story of Churchill Downs begins with the patriarch of the family, Armistead Churchill.
  — TIME, 4 May 2024
• Later in the series, Jim Holt reveals the Duggar patriarch sent him a link to fund his campaign.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• The crash came as a shock to the Happs, who knew the family patriarch as the consummate pilot for whom a flight to Lake Tahoe was no more of an event than a drive to the store.
  — Noah Goldbergstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
• Only the patriarch of the pride eludes them, its paw prints indicating its mighty size.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2022
• At only 20 years of age, Patrick is already the patriarch of the family and a respected and heard voice with their tribe.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 30 June 2023
• The two met for the first time in 2016 in Cuba — the first-ever meeting of a pope and Russian patriarch — and spoke by videoconference in the early weeks of the war.
  — Nicole Winfield, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2022
• When the moment of gratitude arrives, and no one utters a word about their dear patriarch, the knives come out — and not just to carve turkey.
  — Shay Spence, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2023
• The Chrisley patriarch was sentenced to 12 years and his wife received seven years.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• Just the promise of a singing and dancing Michael Shannon, who plays the family patriarch, should be enough to get buyers on board.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2024
• The result would make even the original patriarch proud.
  — Lindsay Talbot, New York Times, 14 May 2024
• James Avery played the patriarch of the Banks family, Uncle Phil, on all six seasons of the series.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 8 May 2024
• In recognition of that gift, she was named grand commander of the Holy Sepulcher by the patriarch of Jerusalem.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
• Lord Corlys is the commander of Westeros’ largest Navy and patriarch of one of the realm’s oldest houses.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2022
• The family patriarch has started passing the torch to his two sons and daughter.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 6 July 2024
• But there are other patriarchs of southern Spain to drop in on too: the ones that produce the ingredients Pizarro adores.
  — Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 May 2024
• The patriarch posed with his sons Charlie, left, and Emilio Estevez, who is also an actor.
  — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2022
• Where the film’s family grants the wealthy patriarch some degree of amnesty, the musical condemns.
  — Juan A. Ramírez, New York Times, 11 May 2023
• Good Middle Names for Boys Parents often choose a middle name for their son that has a specific meaning, honors a patriarch in the family, or simply flows nicely with the first name.
  — Sherri Gordon, Clc, Parents, 16 Oct. 2024
• The Housemaid is an excessively perverse drama about a bourgeois family torn apart by a patriarch’s affair, and the dread of discovery by the community at large.
  — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024