How to Use patrimony in a Sentence

patrimony

noun

• These historic landmarks are an important part of our cultural patrimony.
• The divisions of the present are part of the nation’s patrimony.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 15 June 2017
• The patrimony of a fashion brand like Gucci… its rich legacy speaks to you.
  — Vogue, 12 July 2021
• A small piece of the patrimony survived, but the brothers leased out the vineyards to other winemakers.
  — Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 6 Nov. 2015
• But visitors can reap the rewards of the city's design patrimony any time.
  — Elle Decor Staff, ELLE Decor, 20 Sep. 2010
• The people most concerned by their Roman patrimony are the people who live here.
  — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian, 24 May 2018
• But the 24-year-old wasn't just granted his muscular frame solely on the basis of his patrimony.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 8 Feb. 2022
• This patrimony has fallen under grave threat as a result of the civil war.
  — Christian C. Sahner, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2018
• Fashion, after all, is part of the bedrock of the French economy and its patrimony, and Louis Vuitton plays a very specific role in both.
  — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• His patrimony would not protect him—even a former army chief who stood for the presidency last year wound up in jail.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• What Silva is exploring is patrimony, which in his case is a minefield of loss.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• Now all that remains of his patrimony is enough hefty wood and tatty brocade to churn the stomachs of every Design Within Reach customer in the first three rows.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
• But behind the high-end image of such products are not only many lives and livelihoods, but a sense of national patrimony.
  — Chris O’Brien, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2020
• The collections are considered French national patrimony, just like the art in the Louvre, Lalis says.
  — Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 27 July 2023
• To design and build houses on Martha’s Vineyard is to pay homage to the unique landscape and to the rich patrimony created by previous architects.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2021
• In Italy, arts patronage is baked into the national fabric, a patrimony handed down from the Medicis and the Borgias.
  — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 27 Sep. 2018
• Nothing, at such a moment, can sound more naïve than a call for Americans to rededicate ourselves to our patrimony.
  — The Editors, National Review, 25 Jan. 2021
• According to a profile in Prestige, the 45-year-old scion is the company’s director of art, culture and patrimony.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 14 Nov. 2022
• Jorge Luis Borges once said that Argentine writers should not confine themselves to a few local themes, because the universe is their patrimony too.
  — Willa Glickman, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2023
• But when the youthful Republic had gotten over its tantrums and recognized that its artistic patrimony was worth saving.
  — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• The letter follows a popular petition published on change.org two years ago pleading with the government to stop the project to protect the cultural patrimony of the Sacred Valley.
  — Colleen Connolly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2021
• And- and all those countries, with very few exceptions, were grateful because- that America's standing up for them, standing up for their resource patrimony.
  — CBS News, 10 Nov. 2019
• Japanese scholars are fascinated by the enthusiasm for this patrimony in the West, and the Oberlin show is a direct result.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 31 May 2020
• Gerima can claim his own essential part in that patrimony.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
• Some of the city’s physical patrimony may yet be restored, but the remarkable blend of peoples that once made Aleppo such an exceptional place seems likely to have been lost forever.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2017
• Koyiyumptewa said that the only cases where the tribe isn’t successful in bringing cultural patrimony home are when the pieces are treated with arsenic and other pesticides to preserve them.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2020
• Javier Marías lends his patrimony to ghost stories, stories of murder or suicide or disappearance.
  — Wyatt Mason, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
• Somehow, in a few short days, gas stoves have gone from a thing that some people cook with to, depending on your politics, either a child-poisoning death machine or a treasured piece of national patrimony.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2023
• This book documents his experience in those archives, navigating the bureaucracy that governs Egypt’s national patrimony and coming to know the people who inhabit this tiny corner of the country’s vast officialdom.
  — Alan Mikhail, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• Our patrimony deserves civic and cultural institutions dedicated to our national memory and highest ideals.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024