Sample Sentences forpatrician (editor-reviewed)
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She had a patrician manner about her—refined gestures, impeccable diction, and an air of effortless sophistication.patrician = characteristic of the upper class
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The ancient Roman patricians controlled the Senate and held most of the political power in the early Republic.patricians = officially privileged group of “noble” families in the ancient Roman Republic
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Though her family had once been poor, she now moved in patrician circles, dining with judges, CEOs, and old political families.patrician = belonging to a wealthy, powerful social class
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Williams was speaking of a patrician gentleman, about seventy, who was wearing a scarlet tailcoat with gold embroidery over one pocket. (source)patrician = like a person of high social rank
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Like her older brother, Peter, she had gray eyes and a slender, patrician elegance. (source)
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He says he felt "uncomfortable" when he went for his interviews downtown, and of course he did: he was short and ungainly and Jewish and talked with the flat, nasal tones of his native Brooklyn, and you can imagine how he would have been perceived by some silver-haired patrician in the library. (source)patrician = members of the wealthy, upper-class
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The name had allowed it; to some extent, the name had demanded it: strong and a bit patrician. (source)patrician = of the upper class
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When nurses looked in they saw two exemplary young people, healthy and strong, dressed like patricians.† (source)
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He looked up, staring across the green-lighted tent at the inbred, patrician lines of her face.† (source)
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As an educated man successful in his profession, as an eminent Republican and church leader-even though of the Methodist church-Mr. Clutter was entitled to rank among the local patricians, but just as he had never joined the Garden City Country Club, he had never sought to associate with the reigning coterie.† (source)
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Just as he said this, a tall, sharp-nosed, capable-looking woman walked into the room, the age of a young-ish grandmother, with a thin, patrician-harpy face and iron-rust hair going gray.† (source)
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Patricians?† (source)
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Just before Kasischke-a tall, athletic, silver-haired man with patrician reserve-emerged from the airport customs queue, I asked Andy how many times he'd been on Everest.† (source)
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He stared angrily back at the softly lit drawing-room of the hotel in which he imagined the sleek lives of the patricians of Ireland housed in calm.† (source)
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His face was patrician, eager to serve an equal who needed his expertise.† (source)
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He was a most Christian gentleman, a member of a Reformed parish, with strict traditional opinions, so stubborn an advocate of restricting qualifications for those who govern to the aristocracy that it was as if he were living in the fourteenth century, when, against the dogged resistance of the old free patricians, tradesmen had first begun to win seats and voices in the town council—in sum, a man who opposed anything new.† (source)
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