PATRONAGE in a Sentence
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12 example sentences for PATRONAGE, such as:
1. There was a shade of condescension and patronage in his treatment of Berg and Vera.
2. Nicholas and Denisov were walking up and down, looking with kindly patronage at the dancers.
2. Nicholas and Denisov were walking up and down, looking with kindly patronage at the dancers.
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Meanings and Examples of PATRONAGE
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patronage
v. be a regular customer or client of
n. (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
Classic Sentence:
1 Nicholas and Denisov were walking up and down, looking with kindly patronage at the dancers.
2 There was a shade of condescension and patronage in his treatment of Berg and Vera.
3 Boris was now a rich man who had risen to high honors and no longer sought patronage but stood on an equal footing with the highest of those of his own age.
4 In that circle they discountenanced those who advised hurried preparations for a removal to Kazan of the court and the girls' educational establishments under the patronage of the Dowager Empress.
5 I am sorry to say that my patronage ends with this; and my interest is hardly more extensive.
6 If you were to renounce this patronage and these favors, I suppose you would do so with some faint hope of one day repaying what you have already had.
7 Mr. Jack Maldon shook hands with me; but not very warmly, I believed; and with an air of languid patronage, at which I secretly took great umbrage.
8 Regina had a strong prejudice against untrained assistance, and was induced to yield only by the fact that she owed the patronage of Mrs. Bry and Mrs. Gormer to Carry Fisher's influence.
9 The superior of the convent of Bethune will place in the hands of the person who shall present this note to her the novice who entered the convent upon my recommendation and under my patronage.
10 Thus it is that in the country districts of the South, by written or unwritten law, peonage, hindrances to the migration of labor, and a system of white patronage exists over large areas.
Example Sentence:
1 As a cooperative, we can return the profits of our successful operations to our members - the owners - in the form of a patronage refund.
2 Meanwhile, organized labor and the thousands of new patronage jobs in the federal bureaucracy gave the president powerful political leverage.