PATRONIZE in sample sentences

But even wealthy Jewish immigrants like the Blancks patronized few of the same stores and restaurants and ice cream parlors as Jane’s former friends; they didn’t go to any of the same resorts or tourist hotels or beaches.

Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising

How patronizing.

Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl

"Don’t patronize me.

Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire

I can’t abide being patronized.

Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind

He flashes a patronizing grin at me.

Pittacus Lore -- I Am Number Four

I was working out what I could add about how patronizing he was when I turned and saw that he was still looking at me.

Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You

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A lecture was coming on, and he was in no mood to be patronized.

Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass

She also spoke of finding another store to patronize, one where the proprietors were more concerned about the welfare of the community.

Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

"Don’t patronize me:’ "I’m not patronizing you, but I’m telling you I’m going.

Scott Pratt -- An Innocent Client

Trent gave her a patronizing look.

David Baldacci -- Zero Day

One man, not a friend, patronized the kids badly and spoke to them as though he were addressing an assembly of cretins.

Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide

"Nora Grey," Elliot said in a patronizing voice.

Becca Fitzpatrick -- Hush, Hush

In the event, there were no kilt-wearers loitering about the town square or patronizing the shops that surrounded it.

Diana Gabaldon -- Outlander

—Don’t patronize me.

Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King

He means well but comes off as patronizing.

Victoria Aveyard -- Red Queen

His use of Haymitch’s patronizing endearment.

Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

"Oh, it’s big enough," he said patronizingly, "but somehow I was expecting something… you know."

Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones

She gives me a patronizing look, the way people sometimes look at children when they act too adult, and snatches the flag from the branch.

Veronica Roth -- Divergent

"You know, Guy," said Keating, in a tone of patronizing reproach, "you shouldn’t have run away like that."

Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

There’s nothing patronizing in his voice, and yet I can’t help thinking he reminds me of a schoolteacher about to ease children into a lesson.

Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire

Fleur Delacour gave him a very patronizing look, and he desisted.

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

"Come nearer," said the magistrate, with a patronizing wave of the hand, "and tell me to what circumstance I owe the honor of this visit."

Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo

I mean a young man whom you patronize, Monsieur de Treville.

Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers

But their smile was rather patronizing.

Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

He was a man loved and honoured by all who knew him, and in his youth was, I have heard, the inventor of a burnt rum punch, much patronized on Derby night.

Bram Stoker -- Dracula

Don’t patronize me, werewolf If it weren’t for you—

Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes

His tone hinted at patronizing.

Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons

Taggart achieved a patronizing smile.

Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

He adopted toward him an air of patronizing good humor.

Stephen Crane -- The Red Badge of Courage

He spoke in that refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance who had grown old in society and at court.

Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace

Some of these publications, odd to say, which were patronized by a prince, are to be found in the Secret Library.

Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

Don’t patronize me, Erik.

P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked

I might have been too reserved, and should have patronized her more (though I did not use that precise word in my meditations) with my confidence.

Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

The Blue Fairy Godmother left, amused and patronizing.

Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five

I went down in the basement and opened up a can of dog food for Dandy and Poteet, petting and patronizing them to make up for the attention I had given the cat enemy upstairs.

Homer Hickam -- October Sky

Dana laughed in a patronizing way.

Carl Hiassen -- Hoot

Ullman offered a patronizing little smile, ready to explain as soon as Jack admitted his ignorance, and Jack was happy to respond quickly and crisply.

Stephen King -- The Shining

I see that I must teach Du Vrangr Gata the same lesson that I taught the Council of Elders: I may be young, but I am no child to be patronized.

Christopher Paolini -- Eldest

But the case was by no means closed for the people of Finney County, and least of all for those who patronized Holcomb’s favorite meeting place, Hartman’s Cafe.

Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood

I thought, Already he’s starting to patronize me.

Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid’s Tale

Sue replied by closing her eyes and then assuming a patronizing lecturing voice.

Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink

I went into a drugstore that I had patronized every day since my arrival.

John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me

His five tall brothers gave him good-by with admiring but slightly patronizing smiles, for Gerald was the baby and the little one of a brawny family.

Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind

I even said it in the same patronizing tone he used with his own father.

Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse

The sweet acorns of the evergreen oaks were also patronized; large flocks were there congregated; and from the state of the ground under the trees it was evident that at night they roosted on the branches.

Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson

"If we could get a breed of gals that didn’t care, now, for their young uns," said Marks; "tell ye, I think ’t would be ’bout the greatest mod’rn improvement I knows on,"—and Marks patronized his joke by a quiet introductory sniggle.

Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom’s Cabin