How to Use patriarchy in a Sentence

patriarchy

noun

• For 20 years, the country was ruled as a patriarchy.
• That and the fact that the patriarchy is still alive and well.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 25 May 2022
• The pressure to change the law and address the patriarchy is from the grass roots.
  — Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• So by all means, drive a stake through the heart of the patriarchy.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2022
• Broadway artists love to complain about the grip of the patriarchy.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2019
• Miles takes on not just the patriarchy but the phallusy as well.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
• Ever thought about what the world would be like if the patriarchy wasn't a thing?
  — Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 18 Sep. 2019
• The essence of queerness is a big challenge to patriarchy.
  — Shahamat Uddin, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2023
• The burning smell wasn’t the smoldering sea eel but the demise of the sushi patriarchy.
  — Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2023
• Tell them the contours of patriarchy closed in, but haven’t crushed me.
  — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• There is a way in which this is all about grooming for patriarchy.
  — Emma Sarran Webster, Teen Vogue, 30 Nov. 2018
• This is not a blow to the patriarchy; this is Sesame Street.
  — Molly Fischer, The Cut, 10 Jan. 2018
• This is how the rules of the patriarchy propagate themselves.
  — Brian Gresko, Longreads, 12 June 2018
• These teens are not about the patriarchy or post-colonial ...
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2023
• The patriarchy can try to control us, but some of us cannot be controlled.
  — Kate Moore, Time, 22 June 2021
• Death to the greedy patriarchy that has been doing this to women for centuries.
  — Chloe Melas, CNN, 13 July 2021
• Western medicine has been linked with the patriarchy since the beginning.
  — Julia Belluz, Vox, 14 Aug. 2019
• Why, a painting of her dog toppling the patriarchy, of course!
  — Zoe Weiner, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2018
• That’s just a sign, though, that the patriarchy is as fragile as their egos.
  — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2021
• The group is known for its topless activists who challenge patriarchies around the world.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 26 Dec. 2017
• The show’s first season gives one answer: the patriarchy.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2019
• Ever get the urge to scurry around cities and fight the patriarchy with your grubby little hands?
  — Haley Strack, National Review, 11 Aug. 2023
• The patriarchy is present in ways that have become clearer to me because of my girlfriend.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• Who would've thought that dismantling the patriarchy could sound this fun?
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2021
• For the past several hundred years, patriarchy has shaped the world.
  — CNN, 26 Apr. 2021
• Thank goodness for more music to destroy the patriarchy to.
  — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2021
• The patriarchy is a social system that was designed by men to favor men.
  — Eliza Anyangwe and Melissa Mahtani, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023
• In their world, the patriarchy’s worst aspects can be tempered.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2023
• Coping with patriarchy is a journey with an array of side quests.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 26 Feb. 2021
• O’Leary: There’s a lot of language in here about the patriarchy.
  — Lizzie O'Leary, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024