How To Use Patronize In A Sentence

Now we had been taken notice of, put forward, and patronized, in undeniably genteel society. Oldtown Folks
Watersports on the beach are well patronised, although most people choose simply to bake in the sun.
The organisers thank all who patronised the function and also everyone who donated prizes for the raffle.
A: It makes sense to patronize a travel agent.
What they hate is being patronised by phonies.

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We need to take psychiatrically labeled people in our communities seriously, not patronize or pathologize them.
What they hate is being patronised by phonies.
So he compromised on a very exclusive hotel patronized by legislators who had money of their own, by many of the titled attaches of the embassies, and by families that came during the season with the hope of edging their way into official society. The Slim Princess
Consumers who patronized the T'Owd Lane store were assured of unadulterated food, true measure, and fair prices.
I already struggle not to feel the wool is being pulled over my eyes, or perhaps (to be kinder) I simply feel that there is a strong sort of wishful thinking going on by those involved; so for the Church to indulge in this sort of cosmeticism when the miraculousness should be allowed its own self-evidence - it makes me feel as if I'm being patronized. Incorruptible and Forever
So to patronize me for my use of the term mistake is a mistake, also. Propeller Most Popular Stories
Smart people who appeared sneered and patronised the audience. Times, Sunday Times
Only the most determined and wealthy supermarket-haters will continue to patronise the small shops that are trying to make a go of it again.
Where other anthropologists exoticised or patronised, Firth humanised the people about whom he wrote.
V.F. Philippus_; the meaning, according to the older interpretation, will be: "Philippus beseeches M. Holconius Priscus, duumvir of justice, to favor or patronize him;" whereas the true sense is: Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
Hipparchos patronized performers like Anakreon and Simonides, embellished the herms he set up throughout Attica with gnomic sayings, and added Homeric recitals to the Panathenaia.
Watch as, in a glib aside, he patronises a culturally-hungry bevy of 50,000 people and, in the aftermath, ponder the unspoken insinuation that popular music is just a cacophony that only appeals to thickos.
They all do the same thing: if they like you they get you in for a cup of stewed tea and patronise you for an hour. Times, Sunday Times
He received a commission for the altarpiece, to be painted for the royally patronized convent church in Madrid.
_patronized_; patronized, not by a few persons, not by one half, or three fourths even of a community, but by the _whole community_. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes
It's one of five in the city and probably the most unpatronized. Queens Zoo: Mock Graves and Ape Fountains
The Japanese Imperial family patronises the Japanese Art Association.
But as long as you make the problems genuine and the characters strive with all their considerable abilities to solve them, you are not going to patronise them or sentimentalise them.
However, the second part of your story where you claimed that black people patronize a business called jambalaya juice, that is completely false. CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2008
Since Haydn was patronized by Marie-Antoinette's mother and the young archduchess grew up listening to his music, it is fitting to see her picture on the cover. A New CD
Expensive restaurants are patronized at supper time by a new breed of business executives who combine dining with professional interaction.
While artists working in cities had their own studios, provincial painters were usually itinerants and sometimes lived with the families who patronized them.
I gather from the elliptical description that follows that he began to patronize the coffee shop a lot more frequently.
He has actually lived what careerist academics prefer to patronise and jargonise in structuralist abstraction.
The line does seem to be well patronized which is good news. Canada Line delivers a smooth ride « Stephen Rees's blog
Forbish joined a church, took a boyfriend and stopped snapping at people who "patronized" her by trying to guess a word she couldn't recall. The Roanoke Times: Home page
Biographers were ever the under-belly of the literary world, patronised because they weren't epic poets or triple-decker novelists, and demonised as gossips and sneaks.
We patronised, belittled and ignored these countries' expertise. Times, Sunday Times
The perversity of his relationship with Busch, whom he patronises and desires, and her feelings for him - oscillating between hatred and tenderness - come into focus here too - powerfully but too late.
She patronizes many contemporary British artists.
Charvet, Mayor of Fresnes, had owned the only auberge in the village fit to be patronized by field-grey officers. MOONDROP TO MURDER
Women should not be patronised, marginalised or ‘forced’ to undergo or watch ultrasounds in early pregnancy.
Young people are quite capable of knowing the moral quality of that choice, yet we are in a society that patronises them by treating them as if they have no capacity to understand the nature of their actions.
The author, when unpatronised by the Great, has naturally recourse to the bookseller. Life of Johnson
The smug and superior manner in which the rest of the country has embalmed the region in the 1960s, so as to better patronize it, has echoes of Europeans on an anti-American binge.
Mr. Smiskin said he felt "patronized" by a top USDA official, Edward Avalos, who toured the reservation earlier this summer, then allowed the shipments to go forward without further review. Indians Make U.S. Take Out the Trash
It not, it makes the person being touched feel either old and infirm or diminished and patronised. Times, Sunday Times
I patronize the clearance racks and the department store sales.
Opposite this building was the Alexandra Tea Room, at 18 Rissik Street, which Gandhi used to patronise and support financially, and where he promoted vegetarianism.
Mrs. Ludgate was decided by the word patronize: she took the hat, and desired that it should be set down in her bill: but Mrs. la Mode was extremely concerned that she had made a rule, nay a vow, not to take any thing but ready money for the spring hats; and she could not break her vow, even for her favourite Mrs. Ludgate. Tales and Novels — Volume 02
I patronized every complexion-specialist, friseur, perukier, manicurist and fashionable barber in that part of the world. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
As a journalist, I've been cajoled, flattered, and importuned (not to mention insulted, ignored, bored, and patronized) by politicians.
These young children of extremely high intellectual acumen fail to be interested in ‘child's play’ for the same reason that in adulthood they will fail to patronize custard-pie movies or chute-the-chutes at amusement parks.
Nobody should patronise a club and suggest that they should be happy with a humdrum existence outside the elite. Times, Sunday Times
The heterogeneous triflings which now, I am very sorry to say, occupy so much of our time, will be neglected; fashion's votaries will silently fall off; dishonest exertions for rank in society will be scorned; extravagance in toilet will be detested; that meager and worthless pride of station will be forgotten; the honest earnings of dependents will be paid; popular demagogues crushed; impostors unpatronized; true genius sincerely encouraged; and, above all, pawned integrity redeemed! History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
Kylaithis; but he couldn't even stitch a plectron to a lyre -- the other one, who lives near the house of Hermodorus, after you have left the street, was pretty good once, but he's too old, now; the late lamented Kylaithis -- may her kinsfolk never forget her -- used to patronize him. Satyricon
More and more minigames have been added in the meantime, each with their own in-game bonus: there's a whole host of casino games, bowling lanes and batting cages, traditional Japanese pursuits such as mahjong, shogi, & karaoke, and finally a Hostess Club where protagonist Kiryu can either patronize the club and 'date' the various hostesses or help manage the place to discover new talent. GayGamer.net
It's like, you're pondering what kind of business to start, and as you walk pass six struggling, unpatronized hair salons all lined up in a row, you think, I know! Cutting My Own Bangs
All that was left was for her to try to patronize the younger woman, whom, of course, neither of us had ever met. THE CALLIGRAPHER
Instead he saw the company as the 80 percent dominator of search ads, the venue that every advertiser was forced to patronize. In the Plex
We patronised, belittled and ignored these countries' expertise. Times, Sunday Times
It 'eulogises the male experience and sidelines, patronises and objectifies the female experience'. Times, Sunday Times
If a certain American countess had not patronized her; if certain lorgnettes (implements of torture used by said son of Satan) had not been leveled in her direction; if certain fans had not been suggestively spread between pairs of feminine heads, -- Nora would have been as harmless as a playful kitten. The Place of Honeymoons
There you will be able to patronise the verandah café, enjoy the gardens, and visit the mini vineyard.
He felt, in a vague way, that he and Susan were being patronized, which is not a pleasant feeling to persons with a certain pride of character. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.
Nobody is forcing shoppers to patronize grocery stores that offer discount cards.
What arguments he used on this point cannot exactly be known, for Sir Everard was never supposed strong in the powers of persuasion; but the young officer, immediately after this transaction, rose in the army with a rapidity far surpassing the usual pace of unpatronised professional merit, although, to outward appearance, that was all he had to depend upon. Waverley
Catherine Deneuve gives an unmistakably regal performance as Suzanne Bujol, a potiche, or trophy wife, to Robert (Fabrice Luchini) the wealthy, reactionary owner of an umbrella factory in 1977; he patronises his wife and is alienated from his grown-up children (played by Jérémie Renier and Judith Godrèche.) Potiche: A French farce with feeling
If we cannot resurrect, the moral angel will never patronize our sullied spiritual habitat.
Do locals not have rights to patronize establishments in their own country?
We patronize this store
They had ceased to patronise the nautch, and in its stead preferred English music or military bands.
The emperor, his family and his officials patronized poets, philosophers and painters.
This is a great time to patronize your local shops, too, they'll be liquidating as well.
He said two types of consumers patronize dollar stores.
Readers, I think, are bored senseless with poem after poem full of expository paratactic syntax; it patronizes them, and all but accuses them of being unable to follow an argument. Missing the Vernacular : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
A tiny French bistro-bar La Vie, (so unpatronized you had to resist the temptation to call it La Mort) couldn't make creme caramel and had no coffeemaker yet. Can Airport Food Get Off the Ground?
For he was wont to say, that although he could not declare the waters which he patronised to be an absolute _panpharmacon_, yet he would with word and pen maintain, that they possessed the principal virtues of the most celebrated medicinal springs in the known world. St. Ronan's Well
For he was wont to say, that although he could not declare the waters which he patronised to be an absolute panpharmacon, yet he would with word and pen maintain, that they possessed the principal virtues of the most celebrated medicinal springs in the known world. Saint Ronan's Well
The sad thing is that millions of lads and ladettes are happy to be patronised by corporations making huge profits by selling advertising on the back of an infantile, gender-based template.
We next hear of her as servant-maid in a Piccadilly brothel, a lupanar much patronized by wealthy émigrés from France, among whom was Louis-Henri-Joseph, Duc de Bourbon and later Prince de Condé, a man at that time of about fifty-four. She Stands Accused
The organisers wish to thank all who patronised the event.
The policy of freeing the country from the restrictive tariff will so variegate and multiply the undertakings in the country that there will be a wider market and a greater competition for labor; it will let the sun shine through the clouds again as once it shone on the free, independent, unpatronized intelligence and energy of a great people. The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People
Cologne, and being considered a stomachic, is patronised by Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
She must have sensed me gearing up to patronise her.
What arguments he used on this point cannot exactly be known, for Sir Everard was never supposed strong in the powers of persuasion; but the young officer, immediately after this transaction, rose in the army with a rapidity far surpassing the usual pace of unpatronized professional merit, although, to outward appearance, that was all he had to depend upon. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
As a prince he patronized artists to furnish him with objects for his studiolo in the Palazzo Vecchio, and later he was responsible for organizing the display of the ducal collections he had inherited in the galleries of the Uffizi.
We also want to be assimilated into the mainstream and do not want to be patronised.
Sponsorships like these keep the store's name firmly in the minds of local bowhunters and motivate them to patronize the store.
The real difficulty, for it is not to be dissembled that there is a difficulty, is that the independent voters, those who are desirous of voting for unpatronised persons of merit, would be apt to put down the names of a few such persons, and to fill up the remainder of their list with mere party candidates, thus helping to swell the numbers against those by whom they would prefer to be represented. Representative Government
Smart people who appeared sneered and patronised the audience. Times, Sunday Times
Some customers patronize the store every two or three months; some of the very top spenders come in three to five times a week.
The Glamorgan gentry patronized the boisterous village wakes, and even established new ones in communities which lacked them.
He suggested I check the place over and I told him not to patronize me. BLOOD IS DIRT
They patronized the university and the churches, and the pastors especially bowed at their knees in meek subservience. 5 Chapter 4: Slaves of the Machine
Beaters gain regular employment to flush the birds towards the waiting guns, who as well as paying handsomely for their sport, patronise local hotels, restaurants and shops.
There is a touch of pathos in the picture of the prim, methodistical English lady, who hated the dirt and slovenliness of her husband's people, was shocked at their jovial ways and free talk, looked upon all Papists as connections of Antichrist, and hoped for the salvation of mankind through the form of religion patronised by Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
If Christina Hendricks Joan from Mad Men had a dollar for every time she was patronised as "Rubenesque", she could give up acting and spend the rest of her days lying by swimming pools in bikinis made of diamonds. Lucian Freud treasured the pleasures of the flesh | Barbara Ellen
People who do not travel into cities to work are much less likely to patronize restaurants, theatres and shops.
There have been not a few fine English gentlemen and ladies of this sort; who patronised the poor without ever relieving them, who called out “Amen!” at church as loud as the clerk; who went through all the forms of piety, and discharged all the etiquette of old English gentlemanhood; who bought virtue a bargain, as it were, and had no doubt they were honouring her by the purchase. The Virginians
Many older malls will fold as consumers start to patronize the new, unenclosed, lifestyle malls that are sprouting up throughout the country.
These rather different kinds of miniatures - although not as well known as the other Mughal paintings - were patronised by Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II of Bijapur during the early days of miniatures.
All that was left was for her to try to patronize the younger woman, whom, of course, neither of us had ever met. THE CALLIGRAPHER
She had not yet learned to use the word patronize in the social sense, and she was at a loss to describe the attitude of Mrs. Duncan and her daughter, though her instinct had registered it. Coniston — Volume 03
In the past many visitors have patronized my shop and this is usually quite profitable.
Tell me, because there are two Kerdons, one is that blue-eyed fellow, the neighbor of Myrtaline the daughter of Kylaithis; but he couldn't even stitch a plectron to a lyre -- the other one, who lives near the house of Hermodorus, after you have left the street, was pretty good once, but he's too old, now; the late lamented Kylaithis -- may her kinsfolk never forget her -- used to patronize him. The Satyricon — Complete
In the ad, a father tries to explain to his son why no customers patronize the family restaurant, which mainly sells pork meat-ball soup.
The indulgence shewn by the Public to Evelina, which, unpatronized, unaided, and unowned, past through Four Editions in one Year, has encouraged its Author to risk this SECOND attempt. Cecilia
All that was left was for her to try to patronize the younger woman, whom, of course, neither of us had ever met. THE CALLIGRAPHER
Some readers may feel patronised, too: the novel's sprawl and large cast of gabby narrators mean that we're nudged over and over with key points of plot, history or polemic, in case we missed them the first time.
Some television programmes tend to patronize children.
I do not see that you would be able to patronise or outrank an independent person.
No, I will not patronise you with clever evasions.
It was not just those most disenfranchised members of our society, the children, who were patronized, humoured and ignored.
The restaurant is patronized by John.
This idiot and his team of oafs had the audacity to patronize and laugh at Eugene last night.
Greater kudu, bushbuck and eland, the spiral-horned tribe of antelope approach watering points with caution because of lions which patronise these areas.
Perhaps they will patronize him, and consider pityingly his bibliomania.
Far from the society of scholars and artists, ignorant of courts, unpatronised by princes, he wrought for himself alone the miracle of brightness and of movement that delights us in his frescoes and his easel-pictures. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts
Parload is a famous man now, a great figure in a great time, his work upon intersecting radiations has broadened the intellectual horizon of mankind for ever, and I, who am at best a hewer of intellectual wood, a drawer of living water, can smile, and he can smile, to think how I patronized and posed and jabbered over him in the darkness of those early days. In the Days of the Comet
Audiences appear indifferent to the quality of the performance or the film, preferring to patronise blindly any film featuring their favourite star. Times, Sunday Times
She promoted courtly love and patronized important poets of the day.
As one moves away from the main power centre, the regional Islamic satraps - whether governors of the Delhi Sultanate or newly-independent Sultan - patronized an architecture which slowly began to assume a very different identity.
We patronised, belittled and ignored these countries' expertise. Times, Sunday Times
Running express was very nice, as it kept our train lightly patronized.
In addressing the puzzle of why Moore's prophecy has failed to come true in China, Tsai notes that the party-state has successfully co-opted and patronised China's new bourgeoisie.
It sticks to the facts, avoids becoming opinionated and doesn't patronise.
He suggested I check the place over and I told him not to patronize me. BLOOD IS DIRT
The Japanese Imperial family patronises the Japanese Art Association.
I cannot conclude these opinions without paying tribute to the talents of my illustrious country-women; who, unpatronized by the courts, and unprotected by the powerful, persevere in the paths of literature, and ennoble themselves by the unperishable lustre of MENTAL PRE-EMINENCE! Sappho and Phaon
It would seem that there are only a few artists we can actually 'patronize' enthusiastically--Jim Caviezel, Eduardo Verastegui... The New Beginning
Peeling sorry at having to get rid of such good horses, and anxious to give another blow to the mistaken theory that unnerved animals were unsafe, I obtained the consent of my commanding officer, who patronizes practical conclusions, to perform neurotomy. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
It was "patronized" by Pope Urban VIII in such manner as to paralyze it, and it was afterward vexed by Pope Gregory XVI. A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
For they sneered at the trout, calling them "char," patronised the rather scanty pheasantry, commented on the kennels, stables, and gardens in a manner that brought the red into Portlaw's face and left him silent while luncheon lasted. The Firing Line
The word patronize can be used about a Starbucks without too much of a pejorative flavor to it, although I patronize Peets almost exclusively! Stephen's Lighthouse: What to call library user communities....
Because, simply, the producers of media for young people can't patronise or condescend to their audience.
After being patronised by the check-in assistant you find that your room, whilst ostensibly plush, contains at least one fitting that has been bodged at an angle that isn't quite straight.
Zhao Dezhu patronise the coffeshop. When Shanguo learns that he is a Chinese physician, he grabs the opportunity to find out the tricks to bearing a son.
‘Such food festivals are popular because those who regularly patronize the restaurant, appreciate a change in the menu,’ he added.
The chairperson in her address thanked all the voluntary helpers, especially the minibus drivers and all the people who patronised the centre during the year.
It rouses one at such aukward hours; no, I can't patronise hunting. ' Camilla
In token of their gratitude, the packers patronized his faro and roulette layouts and were mulcted cheerfully of their earnings. AT THE RAINBOW'S END
a restaurant unpatronized by the elite
Eventually I conceded that Dr. X was not talking out of his ass in that I kind of patronized him for not being swift enough to anticipate the emotional needs of theoretical Mrs. X. N@ked Under My Lab Coat
Smart people who appeared sneered and patronised the audience. Times, Sunday Times
Or maybe it will be a Brazil-style center of massive inequality and authors will be patronized by vain billionaires. Matthew Yglesias » Copyright and Author Starvation
There is a touch of pathos in the picture of the prim, methodistical English lady, who hated the dirt and slovenliness of her husband's people, was shocked at their jovial ways and free talk, looked upon all Papists as connections of Antichrist, and hoped for the salvation of mankind through the form of religion patronised by Lady Huntington. Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
street full of flourishing well-patronized shops
They had ceased to patronise the nautch, and in its stead preferred English music or military bands.
I was distinguishing what was indisputably a mass-market phenomenon-opera and the fantasies spun off from opera that were the core of so-called miscellany programs-from the serious music written for a composer's pupils or the connoisseurs who patronized aristocratic salons. City Journal
He suggested I check the place over and I told him not to patronize me. BLOOD IS DIRT
His dulcet tones and relaxed interviewing style helped guide the listener through some pretty heavy stuff at times, but he never patronised his audience.
The train was moderately patronized, not too crowded at all.
There is a big ego at work here, one that takes umbrage at being patronised and is not averse to bad-mouthing anyone he deems incompetent.
He promoted and patronised the artists in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood hoping they might provide a new and noble British Art.
In earlier days it had certainly been better kept; it now looked like any of the other Yugoslavian spas, which are patronized by the peasants and small shopkeepers, and showed a certain homely untidiness, though nothing worse. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V
He also patronized contemporary artists, including Thomas Cromek and Dessoulavy.
As you would expect, good bad or indifferent, (and they can be all three), pushed for time the punter is likely to patronise the reliable purveyor of consistent quality. Idle Dream No. 94
The former may give practical recognition of entire equality, to the best of his ability, but it will avail nothing, for the latter will not "toady" to his friend, nor be "patronized" by him. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays
This idiot and his team of oafs had the audacity to patronize and laugh at Eugene last night.
He was patronized by the Pisani family and he was the official portrait painter to the Venetian academy.
It was also patronised by eminent artists, musicians and intellectuals.
So please don't patronize me with talk about how powerful Lieutenant Luke Henry is. FALLOUT
Paris had reigned supreme in her hothouse establishment and the client patronized it because she valued the couturier 's opinion. YELLOW BIRD
This hapless dissyllable my uncle carried in person to the herald office in Scotland; but neither Lyon, nor Marchmont, nor Islay, nor Snadoun, neither herald nor pursuivant, would patronise Scrogie. — Saint Ronan's Well
Ngculu's customers are mostly locals who patronise her spaza because of its close proximity and because it operates outside normal retail hours.
Is it possible that the fashion industry, long patronized as a realm of the ephemeral and insubstantial, is the real bellwether for future ideas of “ownership” of creative content? Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Music, fashion, film — different approaches to ownership/control of creativity
Let him patronise his overpriced London restaurants with their indifferent offerings and offhand service.
He said the quality of rice from the farm was as good as any of the most patronised imported brands.
This hapless dissyllable my uncle carried in person to the herald office in Scotland; but neither Lyon, nor Marchmont, nor Islay, nor Snadoun, neither herald nor pursuivant, would patronise Scrogie. — Saint Ronan's Well
So please don't patronize me with talk about how powerful Lieutenant Luke Henry is. FALLOUT
Abolishing the Arts Council might put enough money back into our pockets to enable us to patronise opera or whatever art form we prefer - by our own choice, not the imposed will of the illiterati.
If employees don't patronize the stores, then it's difficult to see how they can expect customers to do so.
I'm sure some people patronise that mallam and it all boils down to ignorance. Charms!
We patronised, belittled and ignored these countries' expertise. Times, Sunday Times
A French traveler reported in the 1790s that “a great many husbands” patronized whorehouses as “a means to libertinism.” A Renegade History of the United States
And we're not the first to do this - Roman or Victorian matrons quite happily dabbled in things such as Ouija boards or patronised spiritualists who promised a glimpse into the unknown or a taste of the illicit.
Which mistake the Greek version seems to patronise; I will send you Elias the Tishbite; which word the Tishbite, they add of themselves in favour of their own tradition; which indeed is too frequent a usage in that version to look so far asquint towards the Jewish traditions as to do injury to the sacred text. From the Talmud and Hebraica
'Well, the glass is not what I patronise,' said Sir Theophilus; 'it hips me so consumedly the next day; no, I can't patronise the glass.' Camilla
It made me feel patronised, in a position of weakness.
Members create, finance and patronize the cooperative.
We patronised, belittled and ignored these countries' expertise. Times, Sunday Times
It were a better feeling if the "gentlefolk" would only patronize ornaments of a certain value, or none at all, but I suppose such a stretch of self-denial would be quite beyond the powers of resistance pertaining to human, or rather woman's nature. Shams
Religion was similarly important, as he patronized Lutheran pastors and sponsored Lutheran children in this confessionally-mixed city.
For a long time now the place has been well patronised by local ex-pats who are familiar with the noshery's location and the quality of its grub.
I've never been so patronised as I was last weekend when I decided to bypass the jam judges at the Cortachy Highland Games - who for years now have ignored my valiant efforts at prize-winning conserves - and make fruit gingerbread instead.
But - herein lies the rub - you may not pick and choose which forms of life you will graciously patronise.
He is a failed actor who is everywhere patronised as a colonial, especially by the toffee-nosed English theatrical types for whom he still hopefully auditions.
The ladies of Berne liked to patronize the Palace for tea and little cakes.
I think the Lord has forced Mark to realize, we the people's NEED of being lied to and patronized, is his actual "soul mate". Chair of S.C. Dems responds to Sanford's Op-ed
Dr. Tilton and Will Somers kept their word faithfully, and society recognized the fact and liberally patronized the doctor's store, afterward. The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play
The club is patronized by students and locals alike.
The sentiment behind the utterance is undoubtedly a sincere and genuine one, free of any deliberate intent to patronise, but it was patronising nonetheless.
If we cannot resurrect, the moral angel will never patronize our sullied spiritual habitat.
They are patronised mainly by the under-classes, including domestic servants, whose tithe is too meagre for congregational development.
So please don't patronize me with talk about how powerful Lieutenant Luke Henry is. FALLOUT
In this open-air society, it is the rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes. Les Miserables
This will enable doctors and other medical advisers to refer patients to, and will cause patients to "patronize," the better providers, who, if Teisberg and Porter are right, also will often be the less expensive ones because their quality will in part reflect experience and, in various ways, consequent efficiency. The Urgent Need For Information On The Results (I.e., The Outcomes) Of Medical Care
They run the neighborhood restaurants, bicycle stores, and flower shops you patronize.
But I don't have the statistics on most of the other clothing lines out there, and I would believe that many of the companies I do patronize are paying South American workers 15 cents per hour to make my cable-knit sweater.
Some distinguished geologist has discovered, or thinks he has, some new law of creation by which he can trace the underground currents of water; or some noble noble lord has "patronized" into notice some caprice of an aspiring engineer, and straight-way the kingdom is convulsed with contests to set up or cast down these idols. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles
August assembled unrivalled collections of porcelain, and patronized Johann Friederich Boettger, who founded the Meissen factory in 1710.
The club is patronized by students and locals alike.
And no caveats either - don't patronise me or demean yourself by trying to justify anything.
Mysteriously, something the FIA president seems never to have grasped is that people do not care to be patronised. Archive 2009-06-01
But we scarcely believe a respectable audience would not patronize or encourage Negro buffo songs here. A Renegade History of the United States
I like to patronise local restaurants as well as ones that are exotic and new.
Biographers were ever the under-belly of the literary world, patronised because they weren't epic poets or triple-decker novelists, and demonised as gossips and sneaks.

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