patrician

Example Sentences

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For many Americans, the nationally televised hearing was the first close look at the patrician, grey-haired former FBI director.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

Van Berchem was one of the city’s most respected financiers, a patrician figure with deep roots in Geneva society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 18, 2025

That’s how Hollywood has seen him: patrician, elegant.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2024

Wilkinson was peerless at doing patrician eloquence: a sneering businessman in “The Ghost and the Darkness,” a haughty scientific mind in “The Governess.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2023

He is handsome, with patrician features and swept-back, slightly greasy, light brown hair.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri