Patron

//ˈpeɪ.tɹən//

"Patron" in a Sentence (19 examples)

The patron appreciates genuine antiques.

He's been a patron of this store for many years.

In Mexico, most small towns have a patron saint whose feast day is celebrated with great fanfare.

For example, we can say "obei al la patro" and "obei la patron" (instead of "obei je la patro").

The bouncer was accused of assaulting a drunken patron.

A clairvoyant is a person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron — namely, that he is a blockhead.

St. Crispin is the patron saint of shoemakers because he is said to have worked as one.

We have enough bathrooms that we can provide facilities that give every patron one of three options: men, women, or gender-neutral.

St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland.

Saint Anthony of Padua is the patron saint of lost things.

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patron of my life and liberty

the patron of true holiness

Let him who works the client wrong beware the patron’s ire!

St. Joseph is the patron of many different places.

This car park is for patrons only.

In our trial of the AOT, a transect was used to collect data about the languages being spoken by patrons of the NIE cafeteria during lunchtimes.

Half-a-dozen little boys carried it to the inn, where I had to explain to the patron, in my best Spanish, that we wanted a carriage to go to the baths, seven leagues off.

[...] would obtain permission from the West India Company to settle in certain areas in the New World and cultivate the land. Sometimes absentee patrons would give the colony to a group of interested persons and the patrons would finance ...

a good cause needs not to be patroned by passion

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