patrons
Example Sentences
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He was devoted to our institutions and to the most impressive of our arts leaders and patrons in music, theater and visual art.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
After the game, the club will stay open for an hour to allow traffic to thin out, and club patrons will be able to watch the coach’s postgame news conference through glass panels.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
The invitation-only gala, which benefits The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, began in 1948 as a fundraiser that marked the Institute’s annual spring fashion exhibition and was attended primarily by high-society museum patrons.
From Salon • May 5, 2026
A row of counter seats along a wide-open window gives its patrons a ringside seat to watch street life go by.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
But Vincent does not come from such a family or have any connections with the kind of people who could be patrons.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
