How to Use matriarchy in a Sentence

matriarchy

noun

• For 20 years, the country was ruled as a matriarchy.
• In parts of the south, Hindus have a long tradition of matriarchy.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• In a matriarchy he would be legally required to wear sweaters that show off his collar and hip bones at all times.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 15 May 2022
• Advances in metallurgy sparked the demise of matriarchy in the first place, 5,000 years ago, leading to a growth of weaponry and war.
  — Nora Krug, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• This is the rare movie to deal with the matriarchy that dominates black American culture.
  — Armond White, National Review, 7 July 2021
• Family and matriarchy is the theme of this Disney film, perfect to watch for Mother’s Day.
  — oregonlive, 7 May 2022
• The key to that arc is watching the entire Alverez-Riera matriarchy come together to support the young woman.
  — refinery29.com, 11 May 2018
• Ocellaris clownfish exist in matriarchies headed by the largest and most aggressive member of the school, who rules as a female.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
• It wouldn’t be farfetched to describe the set, both on location in New Zealand and on the Disney lot in California, as a matriarchy.
  — TIME.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• One other broader plot turn of note: The emergence of Westerosi matriarchy.
  — The New Republic, New Republic, 24 July 2017
• June Cleaver and Carol Brady remain the paradigms of chipper blond matriarchy.
  — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2020
• Sharp Objects suggests that matriarchy, too, can have its issues.
  — Ellen Gray, Philly.com, 5 July 2018
• In its entirety, the demand for a matriarchy is a demand for the end of systemic violence of all kinds that are upheld by patriarchy.
  — Sebastian Matthew, Billboard, 24 Aug. 2017
• Another was to seek out support within a Black matriarchy of family and friends.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• Spottswoode was cast in the wine press as a kind of Napa matriarchy, an oenological gynocracy.
  — Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 23 Mar. 2018
• For the novel’s long middle, Hargrave slows the narrative down to explore the fascinating daily lives of a matriarchy isolated in the frozen north.
  — Eliot Schrefer, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2020
• There’s a lot to unpack in the notion of Handler as God, creating the perfect woman, to be placed in an idyllic matriarchy—and the inevitable chaos that will ensue when Barbie leaves this paradise.
  — Time, 27 June 2023
• Recommended for those of you still hoping Daenerys will marry Yara (just me?) and make Westeros a matriarchy.
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 30 Aug. 2017
• Her finished image of the running Virgin was part of a larger triptych that celebrates working-class Chicanas of different ages and body types — and the idea of matriarchy itself.
  — New York Times, 18 Sep. 2021
• Even in a year with a surge in female candidates, not only is a matriarchy unlikely, but significant Democratic gains are far from assured.
  — Charlotte Alter, Time, 18 Jan. 2018
• This doesn't, however, mean that men are discriminated against in matriarchies.
  — Eliza Anyangwe and Melissa Mahtani, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023
• But even social orders don't exist in a binary choice between patriarchies and matriarchies.
  — Eliza Anyangwe and Melissa Mahtani, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023
• The family was a matriarchy, committed to dissolving the boundaries between the daily work of art and the daily work of care—a feminist project more enduring and surreal than any single romance or school of painting.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
• And, Bloomsbury was all about strong, intellectual women, and Mr. Jones thought that Fendi, which became famous as a matriarchy, was also all about strong, intellectual women.
  — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2021
• The boy comes from writer-director Mike Mills’ memories of growing up in a benevolent, amorphous, vexing, highly stimulating matriarchy.
  — Michael Phillips, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2017
• Women enjoy the status of goddesses until one, Desirée, does something that threatens their imperious matriarchy.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 14 Sep. 2021
• All of the dinners, in particular, include an educational or social justice bent, celebrating things like Latinx and Palestinian identity and matriarchy in the kitchen.
  — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2018
• Although researchers have since largely dismissed the idea of a matriarchy, some intriguing evidence suggests relatively high levels of gender equality.
  — Jennifer Hattam, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2016
• For this brunch, guests brought in photographs of their mothers or leading women in their lives to catalyze conversation about motherhood, matriarchy, misogyny, and intergenerational trauma.
  — Ludmila Leiva, Allure, 7 Mar. 2018
• Through these three central characters, Obasi portrays the dimensionality of women living in a matriarchy and invokes the multitudinous meanings of Mami Wata, a famously mercurial deity.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024