Examples of city father in a Sentence
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But this acquisition and the obvious need did not stop city fathers from moving to close the OB Library in 2007.
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Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
Finally, the responses were a not-so-subtle slam of municipal government, since all the improvements being called for came under the purview of city fathers.
—Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Feb. 2025
San Diego’s most famous architect in the early 1900s was swept aside in favor of Goodhue by city fathers promoting the expo.
—Dirk Sutro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
Mahlon Gore, a former mayor, set out the trees on Gore Avenue, and another city father, Sam Robinson, followed suit on Magnolia Avenue, where his imposing 1884 home survives near Livingston Street.
—Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 11 July 2021
The city fathers tried to stem the contamination by requiring crews suspected of infection to stay on the island of Lazzaretto for 40 days.
—Bonnie Kristian, TheWeek, 27 Feb. 2020
Implicated in this was Peter Faneuil, a city father and namesake of the market, whose vast fortune was made in part from the slave trade.
—Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2019
The 19-room inn is set in a grand white Victorian mansion that was a wedding gift in 1882 from city father William Kelley to his daughter Daisy.
—Sharon Boorstin, latimes.com, 30 June 2019
Padberg is talking about the Park River, which winds its way through Hartford, largely underground since city fathers buried it and built I-84 on top of it.
—Susan Dunne, courant.com, 14 June 2019
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Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
Finally, the responses were a not-so-subtle slam of municipal government, since all the improvements being called for came under the purview of city fathers.
—Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Feb. 2025
San Diego’s most famous architect in the early 1900s was swept aside in favor of Goodhue by city fathers promoting the expo.
—Dirk Sutro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
Mahlon Gore, a former mayor, set out the trees on Gore Avenue, and another city father, Sam Robinson, followed suit on Magnolia Avenue, where his imposing 1884 home survives near Livingston Street.
—Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 11 July 2021
The city fathers tried to stem the contamination by requiring crews suspected of infection to stay on the island of Lazzaretto for 40 days.
—Bonnie Kristian, TheWeek, 27 Feb. 2020
Implicated in this was Peter Faneuil, a city father and namesake of the market, whose vast fortune was made in part from the slave trade.
—Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2019
The 19-room inn is set in a grand white Victorian mansion that was a wedding gift in 1882 from city father William Kelley to his daughter Daisy.
—Sharon Boorstin, latimes.com, 30 June 2019
Padberg is talking about the Park River, which winds its way through Hartford, largely underground since city fathers buried it and built I-84 on top of it.
—Susan Dunne, courant.com, 14 June 2019
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“City father.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/city%20father. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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