How to use "patriarch" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "patriarch" in popular movie and book plots

  • It takes place on Graf Station, named for Leo Graf, who is hero and patriarch to the Quaddies.  - Falling Free
  • Together they are cast in a new low-budget film called Home for Purim as the patriarch and dying matriarch of a SouthernS.  - For Your Consideration (film)
  • One stormy night in 1810, family patriarch John McKay (Edward Coxen) and his rival James Canfield (Tom London) kill each other.  - Our Hospitality
  • The unexpected death of the family patriarch throws every member of the Ullmann clan off course.  - Broken Wings (film)
  • Tanamera is the name of the house built by Grandpa Jack, the patriarch of the Dexter family.  - Tanamera – Lion of Singapore
  • The devout widower Morten, patriarch of the family, prominent member of the community, and patron of the local parish church, has three sons.  - Ordet
  • Dmitri, the Romanov patriarch and bitter enemy of the Tsar, tries to mold Dante into an aristocrat and killer worthy of the Romanov name.  - Nikolai Dante
  • Respected family patriarch and businessman Helge (Henning Moritzen) is celebrating his 60th birthday at the family-run hotel.  - Festen
  • The story follows Fyodor, the patriarch of the Karamazov family and his sons.  - The Brothers Karamazov (1958 film)
  • As Graves is the patriarch of the Stuarts, he would thus become King.  - King Ralph
  • The patriarch of a seemingly normal nuclear family returns home one day with a small white rat.  - Sitcom (film)
  • The patriarch of the Kee family contracts leprosy (aka.  - Hawaii (novel)
  • He is later attacked by enforcers of Ethan Krusemark—a powerful Louisiana patriarch and Margaret's father—who tell him to leave town.  - Angel Heart
  • The family consists of patriarch Johann Jr.  - Buddenbrooks
  • Three generations of the Leonides family live together under wealthy patriarch Aristide.  - Crooked House
  • The patriarch of the family, Grandpa Vanderhof, an eccentric old man who keeps snakes and has never paid his income tax.  - You Can't Take It with You (play)

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