Sample Sentences for
patron
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patron as in:  a patron of the arts

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    As a loyal patron of the bookstore, she visited almost every weekend.
    patron = customer
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    The Earl of Southampton was Shakespeare's only known patron.
    patron = financial supporter
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    Bellona was our patron goddess for generations.  (source)
    patron = supporting (someone who gives support)
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    ...and working as a translator and letter-writer for a local patron.  (source)
    patron = customer
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    Once the last few patrons had arrived, everyone settled down solemnly and waited.  (source)
    patrons = customers
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    I've become patron saint of the socially inept.†  (source)
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    A man conscious of enthusiasm for worthy aims is sustained under petty hostilities by the memory of great workers who had to fight their way not without wounds, and who hover in his mind as patron saints, invisibly helping.†  (source)
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    Your patron-saint, in the calendar.†  (source)
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    It was for quite some other reason that she didn't like my patron-saints.†  (source)
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    When he realized what I was talking about, that there were twinkle-bells of sunshine in the room, he smiled like a weather man, like an ecstatic patron of recurrent light, and repeated the news to Daisy.  (source)
    patron = supporter
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    Well, we were sort of patrons to his family.  (source)
    patrons = supporters
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    Even El Jefe had attributed the failure of the invasion from Cayo Confites to our patron saint.†  (source)
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    In one place the peasants presented him with bread and salt and an icon of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, asking permission, as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor of Peter and Paul, his patron saints.†  (source)
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