How to Use patronage in a Sentence

patronage

noun

• They thanked her for her patronage of the new hospital.
• The college relied on the patronage of its wealthy graduates to expand its funds.
• The city should do more to encourage patronage of local businesses.
• Her Majesty took the patronage over from Queen Mary in 1953.
  — Sally Holmes, Marie Claire, 4 Dec. 2019
• This was the era of Tammany Hall, in which patronage, bribery, and fraud were the order of the day.
  — Nick Tabor, The New Republic, 4 Feb. 2022
• Which is to say, that when the food is good enough, there’s enough patronage to go around.
  — Mara Severin | Eating Out, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2023
• Many attribute his good fortune in those years to the patronage of Zhou.
  — Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019
• But Amazon doesn't need your patronage, the small business down the street does.
  — Mark T. Mitchell For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 13 Oct. 2020
• That scene was filmed at Julius’, a real bar in New York and one of the older sites of gay activism and patronage in the city.
  — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 26 June 2019
• And despite the fact that the business model runs on the patronage of the elderly.
  — Bridget Read, Curbed, 18 Dec. 2024
• It’s been going strong since 2006, in no small part thanks to the early patronage of the then-young royals.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 1 May 2023
• Iran has secured great-power patronage for the first time in four decades.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht, wsj.com, 8 May 2023
• Marsh was the third in a line of Stanley’s propelled to arts patronage by their oil money.
  — Daisy Alioto, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The project to build the hospice was one of the last patronages of the late Princess Diana, and it was completed a few years after her 1997 death.
  — Simon Perry, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025
• Such patronage politics lacks the drama of troops on the streets.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• After Diana died in 1997, then-Prince Charles took over the patronage.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 30 June 2023
• The award is organized under the patronage of the Italian Senate and the state of Sicily.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2024
• All of it was a signal to the world that not only is Putin is not isolated, his patronage is still prized in some parts of the globe.
  — Clare Sebastian, CNN, 19 June 2024
• The Duchess of Cambridge's patronage of the gallery was first announced in January 2012.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Mar. 2019
• In their view, good art is more about the process rather than the result, and patronage is about friendship instead of genius.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 2 Dec. 2021
• Inside, the lengthy bar top had ample notches, scrapes and grooves from years of patronage.
  — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• Their menus offer some tasty food and need your patronage during this time as well.
  — cleveland, 7 Mar. 2022
• That the patronage of online collectors could fund the creation of murals in the real world might be the best use of NFTs yet.
  — Suhita Shirodkar, Wired, 31 Jan. 2022
• Set against that backdrop, a return to the indulgence and patronage of the pre-Tsipras era would be calamitous.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• Meghan's been busy since stepping down, both with patronages and in Canada.
  — Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 23 Jan. 2020
• This new patronage is on-brand for Kate, who is known to be an art lover and avid photographer.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 June 2019
• Many of them have funded their fighters and patronage cliques from the opium profits for years.
  — Time, 17 July 2023
• This is the second patronage that Prince Charles, 72, has been handed from his younger brother, 61.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 28 Apr. 2021
• He was later stripped of his military titles and royal patronages.
  — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2025
• The New Zealander wants to make grand prix sailing commercially viable, to drag it from being almost purely reliant on the patronage of wealthy individuals to being able to wash its own face.
  — Andrew Rice, The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025