patricians

Example Sentences

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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

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

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2022

The rich were referred to as patricians, families with ancient roots in Rome who occupied most of the positions of the senate and the judiciary in the city.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

I delivered sentences of arrest by word of mouth to Venetian patricians, noblemen, and officers—always much against the grain.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo