How to Use patriarchal in a Sentence

patriarchal

adjective
  • The more patriarchal the culture, the more a wife could get away with.
    TIME, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Yet, many of the small advancements for women in the patriarchal faith came in the wake of that movement.
    Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Now, Swift hopes to inspire women to fight their wealth in a patriarchal world.
    Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024
  • But the type of masculinity required to make it in a patriarchal world comes with a cost.
    Elissa Strauss, CNN, 14 June 2024
  • But this, Singhal notes, is just the male retelling of the story, shaped by centuries of patriarchal values.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 7 Jan. 2020
  • But young women like Jem don’t get much of a say in the patriarchal Christian society in which they’re raised.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 May 2023
  • So, that as the image of the fallout of losing the patriarchal head of the family and the head of state is really astute and quite thrilling.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 13 June 2024
  • For Jamaican women, some of the old patriarchal ideas left over from the days of colonialism still persist.
    Safiya Sinclair and Nicole Dennis-Benn, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Yet the tango was—and in certain ways, still is—shaped by misogyny and patriarchal tropes.
    Charis McGowan, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The patriarchal society feeds on the ashes of these women and girls.
    Valentina Pop, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021
  • These are women who have been both emboldened and damaged by the patriarchal structure of the Black church.
    Aramide Tinubu, Essence, 25 Jan. 2022
  • For 177 years, Moon Witch has survived a patriarchal and brutal world.
    Natashia Deón, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The prying eyes of a patriarchal society see her as both victim and prey.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 June 2024
  • But there is a younger generation now that sees the regime and its patriarchal society as the problem.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Peace Adzo Medie tells a story of strong women in the midst of a patriarchal culture.
    Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2020
  • The premise was, of course, that there was something inherently bad about being a girl, and by not being like the rest, my chances in a patriarchal world were much improved.
    Hazlitt, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Karuna Nundy warned Wednesday that laws designed to restrict the rights of women continue to do harm, thanks to patriarchal courts.
    Nik Popli, Time, 9 June 2022
  • For the past few years, South Korea has faced a reckoning against its deeply patriarchal culture.
    Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The paucity of men in the village has not liberated the women from the harsh confines of Afghanistan’s patriarchal culture.
    New York Times, 27 Dec. 2020
  • On the fringe of the left there are those who want to overthrow the racist, cisgendered, patriarchal neoliberal oligarchy.
    David Brooks, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
  • That’s an old, patriarchal way of thinking about tax households.
    Ginny Hogan, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Against the backdrop of a largely patriarchal Christian world, word spread about his message for women.
    C. Syl'violet Smith, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Some members of the Mosuo society have adopted patriarchal practices, with males as the head of the household.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
  • As a woman, Mako wasn't in line to the throne -- Japan's conservative and patriarchal succession law blocks that.
    CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Most of the countries the leaders come from are patriarchal, where the effects of machismo are significant.
    Washington Post, 3 June 2020
  • In other words, a woman taking her own picture on her own terms is not enough to disrupt the patriarchal status quo.
    Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Adding a child to a partnership really turns up the heat on every kind of patriarchal force that’s acting on a woman.
    Thessaly La Force, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2024
  • In friendship amongst women, sometimes what comes in the middle of it is patriarchal values.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 May 2024
  • The Supreme Court's overreach and its overturning of precedent reflects a patriarchal view of the world -- one which seeks to control women's bodies.
    CNN, 27 June 2022
  • As a nun in that extremely patriarchal era, how does a woman gain some semblance of agency?
    Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021

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