matriarch

How To Use matriarch In A Sentence

• The Matriarch of the family gives him some money for books and incidental expenses.
• Then my mind wandered to how Marija Gimbutas and others have earned a bad rap for their insistence on skewing historical perspective with their matriarchal/matrifocal ideals of an 'Old Europe', i.e. Matriarchy and women rulers
• These are tears of sorrow that it has come to this, that the country’s matriarch is gone, and no one looms bright over the horizon to serve as the country’s guardian angel. Global Voices in English » Philippines: People mourn death of Corazon Aquino
• There's nothing quite like a domineering matriarch to fall in love with and Streep not only neuters her on-screen male counterparts but the audience as well.
• They form a matriarchy, a herd of females led by the dominant matriarch, who all band together to raise and protect and teach each other and their young calves.
• But how are we to know whether matriarchy did not have similar extremes?
• The lowest income communities in America have become virtual matriarchies nearly devoid of men. Wendy Sachs: Why Men Matter
• It's strange that 70s feminists came to use the term "matriarchy" as synonymous with "rule by women" as the Nurse Ratched character might symbolize. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
• Experienced British thespians Brian Cox and Penelope Wilton have supporting roles as the matriarch and patriarch of the Hewitt clan.
• In the first month of his new program, ever-aware Gandolo imprisoned the matriarchal Rotomor Gang and the triplet harridan sisters that commanded it, hung the notorious filcher Scynod of the Prehensile Feet, and chased a boisterous company of apes-turned-highwaymen from the Regretful Tomb Way all the way across the river Snat. GANDOLO OF THE WATCHFUL EYE • by Bill Ward