patricians

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

He’s one of those sci-fi characters whose normal Earthman name distinguishes him as a plebe among patricians.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2024

Versatile and assured, Sternhagen played women who were folksy, regal, plain-spoken and glamorous, although she had a special fondness for dotty eccentrics and snobby patricians.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2023

Both plebeians and patricians could attend this assembly, which was organized into blocs.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Nehru and John Kennedy, both patricians, met in 1961 and quickly warmed to each other.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2022

He fell in with one of those motley assemblages of patricians and plebeians, piety and profligacy, "a company of pilgrims"; a subject too well painted by others for me to go and daub.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles