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

“Father Knows Best” aired from 1954 to 1960 — bouncing between networks CBS and NBC — and starred Robert Young as the patriarch of the middle-class Anderson family.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 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

Last November the court sentenced five of them to death including the clan's patriarch Bai Suocheng, who died of illness after his conviction, state media reported.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

“There are three things I never could understand,” the aging patriarch once confessed.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson