How to Use patrician in a Sentence

patrician

1 of 2 noun

• For the dearth, / The gods, not the patricians, make it, and / Your knees to them, not arms, must help.
  — James Shapiro, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2020
• In ancient Rome, the wealthy patricians ran the empire.
  — Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2019
• That is because the Roman Forum began as a market and became the place where patricians would meet plebeians and press the flesh.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Over the show’s first four seasons, the onetime patrician, played by Catherine O’Hara, lost her friends, her acting prestige, and a handful of her beloved wigs.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2019
• People around town have never much cared for caricatures of the place—the starchy patricians, the chinless wonders, the history of exclusion—even when there is truth in them.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 3 May 2020
• Raised in Connecticut and rooted in Texas, the patrician Bush came across as a hapless tourist squinting to understand the dialect and comprehend the natives.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
• Published in German during the 15th century, it was then said to describe the pilgrimage of Gabriel Muffel, son of a Nuremburg patrician.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2020
• Which is to say: The intellectual became a plebeian in part because the patricians abandoned their duty.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 11 July 2019
• The plot centers on the doomed love between a young Christian woman and a Roman patrician, but their pallid romance is not what turned the novel into a worldwide sensation.
  — Gaia Squarci, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2020
• The suggestion that the first President Bush was some elitist patrician who didn’t know his way around a modern grocery store continues to rankle Barr three decades later.
  — New York Times, 27 Feb. 2022
• Plebeians and patricians, their tribunes and senators, are checks and balances on one another.
  — Ryan Shinkel, WSJ, 21 July 2017
• Only Goode seems to be having any fun, strutting around as Hollywood royalty while wrapping everything in Evans’ patrician-with-a-head-cold voice.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2022
• Lunsford was a smart and curious scholarship student, far from the patricians who dominated his Harvard class.
  — Dallas News, 3 July 2019
• Today, a century after the progressive movement that inspired Kane and real-world patricians, class and inequality are once again at the center of American politics.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Yorker, 14 July 2019
• In practice, the plebeians (the general citizenry) had fewer voting rights than the aristocratic patricians.
  — National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2019
• Bateman also suggested that orchids were nature’s green patricians.
  — Katy Kelleher, Longreads, 9 Oct. 2019
• One of leather’s most revelatory qualities is its ability to shape-shift, to convey bodily, musky sensuality one moment and an almost patrician reserve the next.
  — Town & Country, 3 Mar. 2023
• For the dearth, / The gods, not the patricians, make it, and / Your knees to them, not arms, must help.
  — James Shapiro, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2020
• In ancient Rome, the wealthy patricians ran the empire.
  — Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2019
• That is because the Roman Forum began as a market and became the place where patricians would meet plebeians and press the flesh.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Over the show’s first four seasons, the onetime patrician, played by Catherine O’Hara, lost her friends, her acting prestige, and a handful of her beloved wigs.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2019
• People around town have never much cared for caricatures of the place—the starchy patricians, the chinless wonders, the history of exclusion—even when there is truth in them.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 3 May 2020
• Raised in Connecticut and rooted in Texas, the patrician Bush came across as a hapless tourist squinting to understand the dialect and comprehend the natives.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
• Published in German during the 15th century, it was then said to describe the pilgrimage of Gabriel Muffel, son of a Nuremburg patrician.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2020
• Which is to say: The intellectual became a plebeian in part because the patricians abandoned their duty.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 11 July 2019
• The plot centers on the doomed love between a young Christian woman and a Roman patrician, but their pallid romance is not what turned the novel into a worldwide sensation.
  — Gaia Squarci, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2020
• The suggestion that the first President Bush was some elitist patrician who didn’t know his way around a modern grocery store continues to rankle Barr three decades later.
  — New York Times, 27 Feb. 2022
• Plebeians and patricians, their tribunes and senators, are checks and balances on one another.
  — Ryan Shinkel, WSJ, 21 July 2017
• Only Goode seems to be having any fun, strutting around as Hollywood royalty while wrapping everything in Evans’ patrician-with-a-head-cold voice.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2022
• Lunsford was a smart and curious scholarship student, far from the patricians who dominated his Harvard class.
  — Dallas News, 3 July 2019

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patrician

2 of 2 adjective

• The game has a certain mystique, with its patrician dress code and complicated rules.
  — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
• With his patrician nose and sunken eyes — to many, the spit and image of Juan Carlos himself — Mr. Solà said his own face was the easiest evidence of his parentage.
  — New York Times, 25 June 2021
• You’re offended that rather than do what such patrician fellows as Dubya did (smile silently while the left portrayed him as a simian jughead), Trump has dared to slap back.
  — Matt Labash, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2021
• The irony of ironies is that Will Knowland represents the best chance that Eton actually has of shedding its image of patrician disdain.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 4 Dec. 2020
• Brutus, like most Romans, came from a plebeian, not a patrician family.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
• The domus, or house, was clearly the residence of an important patrician family.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2022
• In private practice, former New Dealers had dislodged the profession’s patrician old guard.
  — Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• From youth, his works were expertly wrought, sumptuously opulent but clearly of their time, and full of passion restrained somewhat by a tidy, patrician melancholy.
  — Tim Page, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
• Ellie’s wealthy patrician parents invite her and Sebastian to spend July 4th weekend with them at their palatial summer estate.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2023
• For some, Waugh’s bittersweet elegy became a sort of handbook of patrician showmanship.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• These unlikely subjects for unlikely patrons seem completely at odds with Manet’s gifts as a detached, and at times aloof, observer of patrician urban culture.
  — Colin B. Bailey, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• His election strategy in 1931 contrasted his patrician roots with Cermak’s plebian origins.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
• Harden heightens the patrician obliviousness of Joan, who prides herself on being put together even while reeling after her husband (Mark Moses) suddenly left her.
  — Caroline Framke, Variety, 26 Sep. 2022
• The game has a certain mystique, with its patrician dress code and complicated rules.
  — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
• With his patrician nose and sunken eyes — to many, the spit and image of Juan Carlos himself — Mr. Solà said his own face was the easiest evidence of his parentage.
  — New York Times, 25 June 2021
• You’re offended that rather than do what such patrician fellows as Dubya did (smile silently while the left portrayed him as a simian jughead), Trump has dared to slap back.
  — Matt Labash, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2021
• The irony of ironies is that Will Knowland represents the best chance that Eton actually has of shedding its image of patrician disdain.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 4 Dec. 2020
• Brutus, like most Romans, came from a plebeian, not a patrician family.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
• The domus, or house, was clearly the residence of an important patrician family.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2022
• In private practice, former New Dealers had dislodged the profession’s patrician old guard.
  — Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• From youth, his works were expertly wrought, sumptuously opulent but clearly of their time, and full of passion restrained somewhat by a tidy, patrician melancholy.
  — Tim Page, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
• Ellie’s wealthy patrician parents invite her and Sebastian to spend July 4th weekend with them at their palatial summer estate.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2023
• For some, Waugh’s bittersweet elegy became a sort of handbook of patrician showmanship.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• These unlikely subjects for unlikely patrons seem completely at odds with Manet’s gifts as a detached, and at times aloof, observer of patrician urban culture.
  — Colin B. Bailey, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• His election strategy in 1931 contrasted his patrician roots with Cermak’s plebian origins.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
• Harden heightens the patrician obliviousness of Joan, who prides herself on being put together even while reeling after her husband (Mark Moses) suddenly left her.
  — Caroline Framke, Variety, 26 Sep. 2022

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