How to Use patriarchal in a Sentence

patriarchal

adjective

• The more patriarchal the culture, the more a wife could get away with.
  — TIME, 18 Oct. 2023
• Yet, many of the small advancements for women in the patriarchal faith came in the wake of that movement.
  — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Nov. 2022
• But the type of masculinity required to make it in a patriarchal world comes with a cost.
  — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 14 June 2024
• But young women like Jem don’t get much of a say in the patriarchal Christian society in which they’re raised.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 May 2023
• So, that as the image of the fallout of losing the patriarchal head of the family and the head of state is really astute and quite thrilling.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 13 June 2024
• For Jamaican women, some of the old patriarchal ideas left over from the days of colonialism still persist.
  — Safiya Sinclair and Nicole Dennis-Benn, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2023
• Yet the tango was—and in certain ways, still is—shaped by misogyny and patriarchal tropes.
  — Charis McGowan, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Aug. 2024
• The patriarchal society feeds on the ashes of these women and girls.
  — Valentina Pop, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021
• These are women who have been both emboldened and damaged by the patriarchal structure of the Black church.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Essence, 25 Jan. 2022
• For 177 years, Moon Witch has survived a patriarchal and brutal world.
  — Natashia Deón, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
• The prying eyes of a patriarchal society see her as both victim and prey.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 June 2024
• But there is a younger generation now that sees the regime and its patriarchal society as the problem.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2022
• Peace Adzo Medie tells a story of strong women in the midst of a patriarchal culture.
  — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2020
• The premise was, of course, that there was something inherently bad about being a girl, and by not being like the rest, my chances in a patriarchal world were much improved.
  — Hazlitt, 27 Sep. 2023
• Karuna Nundy warned Wednesday that laws designed to restrict the rights of women continue to do harm, thanks to patriarchal courts.
  — Nik Popli, Time, 9 June 2022
• The paucity of men in the village has not liberated the women from the harsh confines of Afghanistan’s patriarchal culture.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2020
• On the fringe of the left there are those who want to overthrow the racist, cisgendered, patriarchal neoliberal oligarchy.
  — David Brooks, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• That’s an old, patriarchal way of thinking about tax households.
  — Ginny Hogan, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021
• Against the backdrop of a largely patriarchal Christian world, word spread about his message for women.
  — C. Syl'violet Smith, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Jan. 2023
• Some members of the Mosuo society have adopted patriarchal practices, with males as the head of the household.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
• As a woman, Mako wasn't in line to the throne -- Japan's conservative and patriarchal succession law blocks that.
  — CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
• Adding a child to a partnership really turns up the heat on every kind of patriarchal force that’s acting on a woman.
  — Thessaly La Force, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2024
• In friendship amongst women, sometimes what comes in the middle of it is patriarchal values.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 May 2024
• The Supreme Court's overreach and its overturning of precedent reflects a patriarchal view of the world -- one which seeks to control women's bodies.
  — CNN, 27 June 2022
• As a nun in that extremely patriarchal era, how does a woman gain some semblance of agency?
  — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• Green wants to spread a message that’s less about faith in a patriarchal Judeo-Christian God and more about the people who come together to save their kids by any means necessary.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• During an overnight rally last weekend, the largest since the 2014 coup, female speakers took aim at the patriarchal traditions of the Thai royal palace.
  — New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
• And so in my mind, the tiger is always a patriarchal king, similar to how lions are kings in Western mythology.
  — Saira Khan, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
• McGahern hammers so long and so hard on these disavowals, in fact, that one wonders what more is being renounced: God, country, the patriarchal family structure, or the whole damn thing.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024
• The papacy is one of the oldest patriarchal societies, steeped in ancient and secret rituals.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024