PATRONAGE in a Sentence

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 Meanings and Examples of PATRONAGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
patronage
 n.  sponsorship; support; state of being a sponsor
Classic Sentence:
1  Nicholas and Denisov were walking up and down, looking with kindly patronage at the dancers.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XII
2  There was a shade of condescension and patronage in his treatment of Berg and Vera.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XX
3  Boris was now a rich man who had risen to high honors and no longer sought patronage but stood on an equal footing with the highest of those of his own age.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III
4  In that circle they discountenanced those who advised hurried preparations for a removal to Kazan of the court and the girls' educational establishments under the patronage of the Dowager Empress.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VI
5  I am sorry to say that my patronage ends with this; and my interest is hardly more extensive.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39
6  If you were to renounce this patronage and these favors, I suppose you would do so with some faint hope of one day repaying what you have already had.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLI
7  Mr. Jack Maldon shook hands with me; but not very warmly, I believed; and with an air of languid patronage, at which I secretly took great umbrage.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
8  Regina had a strong prejudice against untrained assistance, and was induced to yield only by the fact that she owed the patronage of Mrs. Bry and Mrs. Gormer to Carry Fisher's influence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
9  The superior of the convent of Bethune will place in the hands of the person who shall present this note to her the novice who entered the convent upon my recommendation and under my patronage.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 60 IN FRANCE
10  Thus it is that in the country districts of the South, by written or unwritten law, peonage, hindrances to the migration of labor, and a system of white patronage exists over large areas.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence:
1  As a cooperative, we can return the profits of our successful operations to our members - the owners - in the form of a patronage refund.
2  Meanwhile, organized labor and the thousands of new patronage jobs in the federal bureaucracy gave the president powerful political leverage.