Two weeks ago Pater-familias rode down town with me, and I saw upon his shoe an immense patch, while his hat was so shiny, with frequent caressings from a silk handkerchief, that it seemed to be varnished and polished.
They were reciprocated tenfold by proteges--who chanced to be of the familias principales of Mexico.
At a glance it is apparent they are in possession of the "familias principales," the aristocracy of the settlement.
The worthy pater-familias was in the most unspeakable confusion.
He, too, was a pater-familias with three sons and two daughters.
Run away, my pretties, and don't eat more than one each, or mater familias will not approve.
Pater familiassays that the Mouse is a noble stream.
Pater and mater familias couldn't bring it themselves, because he said it wasn't safe for him to come, and she's lying down ill at what you sent to her.
Because mater familias said I was to make you bring them if I stayed for them all day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "familias" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
