Sample Sentences forpatriarchy (auto-selected)
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Very green and neat and precise was that yard, set about on one side with great patriarchal willows and the other with prim Lombardies. (source)patriarchal = large, old, and imposing (figuratively as a father might be seen in a family)
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The simple, chilling fact was that Mahtob and I were totally subject to the laws of this fanatical patriarchy.† (source)
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Because I was born out of wedlock, and my mom doesn't believe in what she calls the cult of the patriarchy, she gave me her last name instead of my dad's.† (source)
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The most transient visitor to this planet, I thought, who picked up this paper could not fail to be aware, even from this scattered testimony, that England is under the rule of a patriarchy.† (source)
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I'm not going to get sucked into that patriarchal institutional oppression again.† (source)
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Next to the house there was a patriarchal elm tree, against the trunk of which Finny leaned and shouted at me as I ran a large circle around him.† (source)
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It was a patriarchal society, in which age was respected, even revered, especially when, as in my maternal grandfather's case, age meant a lifetime of hard work, of caring for his family, and of devotion to his faith.† (source)
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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)
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The patriarchal lives of my protectors caused these impressions to take a firm hold on my mind; perhaps, if my first introduction to humanity had been made by a young soldier, burning for glory and slaughter, I should have been imbued with different sensations.† (source)
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Both her cast of form and feature, her complexion and her general air, suggested the idea of some Israelitish princess of the patriarchal days; and such was doubtless the character she intended to represent.† (source)
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I used to watch and study this patriarchal personage with, I think, livelier curiosity than any other form of humanity there presented to my notice.† (source)
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It's a very patriarchal society, and as modern as it is, women are still second-class citizens.† (source)
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He nearly touched an old catcher's mitt set on a pedestal, the object gashed yellow, spike-gashed and sun-smoked and patriarchal, but he managed to hold back.† (source)
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Only now he disguised it in the patriarchal style of an old man's memories so that it would not be too obvious that it was really a document of love.† (source)
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This lonely, unconsenting rebel battled against the patriarchal influences that had shaped my childhood: the American South and the Catholic Church.† (source)
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Major — de Coverley was a splendid, awe-inspiring, grave old man with a massive leonine head and an angry shock of wild white hair that raged like a blizzard around his stern, patriarchal face.† (source)
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