patrician - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • watch: Invasion caused a tossed their lines be watching patricians.
  • marry: Having been baptized, she refused to marry a pagan patrician and so was martyred for Christ in Rome.

Modifies a noun

  • family: Founder of the Bahá'í Faith Born in 1817, Bahá'u'lláh was a member of one of the great patrician families of Persia.
  • house: Marvel at this historic city with its fabulous Gothic churches and elegant patrician houses.
  • clan: The young officer acquired both by fortunate commercial speculations and by his union with a maiden of the ancient patrician clan of the Julii.
  • parent: Born in Poitiers in France of pagan patrician parents, he married early in life.
  • arrogance: In France this was characterized by a patrician arrogance which simply begged to be cut down to size.
  • faction: In Julius Caesar, disagreement over days and their interpretation does, in part, divide along political lines between the patrician factions.

Noun used with modifier

  • pagan: Born in Poitiers in France of pagan patrician parents, he married early in life.

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