patriarch
Example Sentences
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Who do you play in “The Madison”? I play the patriarch in the Taylor Sheridan series about a family that moves West to recover from a tragedy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
Graham’s tweaked, sensitive patriarch is tantalizingly far from the heartbreaking dad of “Adolescence” and the gloriously oddball Riseborough makes the most of her faint-voiced mom’s severity.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
Dane starred as family patriarch Cal Jacobs on hit HBO teen drama show Euphoria.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
Family patriarch Joseph Guinnip joined the throngs of people who headed west to take hold of America’s Manifest Destiny, leaving Steuben County, N.Y., in the 1830s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026
To me he was a patriarch with authority over me, but he seemed to surrender that authority the moment I passed through his door.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Vocabulary lists containing patriarch
Play by the Rules: Arch
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