matriarchyin a sentence
- The Priory believes that Constantine and his male successors successfully converted the world from matriarchal paganism to patriarchal Christianity by waging a campaign of propaganda that demonized the sacred feminine, obliterating the goddess from modern religion forever.† (source)
- He guessed that, like certain monkey troops, the raptors were organized around a matriarchal pecking order, and that this striped animal was the alpha female of the colony.† (source)
- We were a matriarchal family because my grandfather died when he was a young man and left my grandmother to carry on, which she managed rather grandly.† (source)
- Phineas stopped talking for once, so that now I could hear cricket noises and bird cries of dusk, a gymnasium truck gunning along an empty athletic road a quarter of a mile away, a burst of faint, isolated laughter carried to us from the back door of the gym, and then over all, cool and matriarchal, the six o'clock bell from the Academy Building cupola, the calmest, most carrying bell toll in the world, civilized, calm, invincible, and final.† (source)
- As we heard at the panel discussion yesterday afternoon, Gilead was, although undoubtedly patriarchal in form, occasionally matriarchal in content, like some sectors of the social fabric that gave rise to it.† (source)
- It had a matriarchal twang.† (source)
- We are victims of a matriarchy here, my friend, and the doctor is just as helpless against it as we are.† (source)
- What we know is that just because a society is matriarchal, as ours is, it does not automatically mean that it is anti-male.† (source)
- Dwarves are matriarchal.† (source)
- There were plenty of women around-between Barbara's sisters and Scripture's missionary ladies-and young Lavar was the pride of a matriarchy.† (source)
- That they travel in matriarchal packs, and gestatefor 22 months?† (source)
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- My childhood was spent in the Pueblo matriarchy, where women owned property, and children belonged to the mother's clan.† (source)
- The people of that island have a matriarchy.
- So you see, my friend, it is somewhat as you stated: man has but one truly effective weapon against the juggernaut of modern matriarchy, but it certainly is not laughter.† (source)
- A blonde who sat on the other side of the room said, "The Amazons were heavily matriarchal, as are all vampyre societies?† (source)
- As most of you already know, our society today is still matriarchal, but we respect and appreciate the Sons of Night, and consider them our protectors and consorts.† (source)
- In the German spirit the matriarchal link with nature rules in the form of the hegemony of music to an extent unknown in any other people.† (source)
- China's was hopelessly insecure by comparison; even the primitive matriarchies weren't steadier than we are.† (source)
- His maternal ancestors crowded into his face when he was spurning at Arthur—ancestors whose civilization, like Mordred's, had been matriarchal: who had ridden bare-back, charged in chariots, fought by stratagem, and ornamented their grisly strongholds with the heads of enemies.† (source)
- —Matriarchy!† (source)
- Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-venders; thus the captains to Zenobia; and in the damp cave over gnawed bones the hairy suitor thus protested to the woman advocate of matriarchy.† (source)
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