How to Use matriarchal in a Sentence

matriarchal

adjective

• An elephant needs a matriarchal herd, which then allows the males to go off as loners and meet up with the herd from time to time.
  — Jack McCordick, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2023
• For the first two years of his life, Kik mostly stayed in the lower Yukon River basin, almost certainly in a matriarchal herd.
  — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• Their society is matriarchal, with the pods led by grandmothers and mothers.
  — oregonlive, 8 May 2021
• For 50 years, a secretive matriarchal religious order has stolen the hearts of thousands of women.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 22 Aug. 2023
• In the wild, European bison have a matriarchal social structure, similar to that of elephants.
  — Victoria Turk, Wired, 19 July 2022
• Told from the perspectives of two young women — Indir and Saya — the novel takes place in and around the city of Alcanzeh, a mostly matriarchal society informed by Mesoamerican societies.
  — Seth Combs Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2022
• The society has been and remains matriarchal and matrilocal, with husbands moving in with their wives’ families.
  — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 29 Mar. 2023
• Her roles on the silver screen, often depicting matriarchal characters is what earned her an Academy Award and Golden Globe.
  — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 1 May 2021
• Pods usually consist of a matriarchal female and her offspring.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
• Both Farr and Tyler are at their best delivering the inner thoughts, frustrations, and sly humor of the main character, Mercy Garratt, a woman trapped in her matriarchal role by both family ties and custom.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2022
• Her decisions feel more rooted in matriarchal sacrifice than anything else, which minimizes her choice to protect not just her family, but also herself.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 May 2024
• In the film, Barbie Land is this matriarchal feminist utopia where every race and ethnicity is represented ... except Latinas.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• Research into feral colonies shows that cats tend to form matriarchal social bonds; females will adhere more closely to one another (typically in a community of mothers, aunts and sisters).
  — Colleen Grablick, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
• Perhaps the proximity of Lesbos, where Sappho wrote of the sexiness of female separatism, made matriarchal societies seem perfectly plausible.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
• The early riot-grrrl scene was characterized by a matriarchal spirit of creative collaboration.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
• And there are communities that are matriarchal societies, there are patriarchal societies.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Feb. 2023
• The traditional Swahili society is strongly matriarchal.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
• Similarly, better understanding of non-human communication can reveal the ways that specific matriarchal herds of elephants pass on information.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2023
• Many Indigenous societies were historically matriarchal, Haozous noted; art museums and institutions have traditionally not been.
  — Briana Miller | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024