Sample Sentences forpatronizegrouped by contextual meaning (editor-reviewed)
patronize as in: Don't patronize me.
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I'm annoyed by her patronizing tone -- as though she knows more about my situation than I do.
patronizing = treating in a manner that demonstrates a sense of superiority, but is supposed to seem kind
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Do not patronize me, OK? (source)patronize = treat in a manner that demonstrates a sense of superiority, but is supposed to seem kind OR the actions of a patron (to support someone or something; or to be a customer)
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His use of Haymitch's patronizing endearment. (source)patronizing = treating in a manner that demonstrates a sense of superiority, but is supposed to seem kind
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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. (source)patronizing = treat in a manner that demonstrates a sense of superiority, but is supposed to seem kind
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Dana laughed in a patronizing way. (source)patronizing = in a manner that demonstrates a sense of superiority
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A lecture was coming on, and he was in no mood to be patronized.† (source)
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I thought, Already he's starting to patronize me.† (source)
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The point about Chrissie—and this applied to a lot of the veterans—was that for all her slightly patronising manner towards us when we'd first arrived, she was awestruck about our being from Hailsham.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it patronizing.
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The scholar could not speak for his disgust, but he smiled patronizingly.† (source)
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He has been to town to do his semiweekly marketing, where, gaunt, misshapen, with his gray stubble and his dark spectacleblurred eyes and his blackrimmed hands and the rank manodor of his sedentary and unwashed flesh, he entered the one odorous and cluttered store which he patronised and paid with cash for what he bought.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it patronized.
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I don't patronise the ring for nothing, do I, Tony?† (source)unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it patronize.
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In this open-air society, it is the rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes.† (source)
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"Of course it is," Brittain says, and I detect a note of patronization.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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His wife was awake, her face sallow and lifeless in the morning light, but now he did not compare her with Tanis; she was not merely A Woman, to be contrasted with other women, but his own self, and though he might criticize her and nag her, it was only as he might criticize and nag himself, interestedly, unpatronizingly, without the expectation of changing—or any real desire to change—the eternal essence.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unpatronizingly means not and reverses the meaning of patronizingly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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patronize as in: patronize the store
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The boycotters no longer patronized the store.
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She also spoke of finding another store to patronize, one where the proprietors were more concerned about the welfare of the community. (source)patronize = be a customer of
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A chapandaz, a highly skilled horseman usually patronized by rich aficionados, has to snatch a goat or cattle carcass from the midst of a melee, carry that carcass with him around the stadium at full gallop, and drop it in a scoring circle while a team of other chapandaz chases him and does everything in its power—kick, claw, whip, punch—to snatch the carcass from him. (source)patronized = supported
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