Some years ago, when an association for the suppression of gambling was organized, an agent of the association came to a prominent citizen and asked him to patronize the society.
If the members liked her things, perhaps they would get their wives to patronize her, too," said Gertrude, gaily.
You do not respect womanhood; you only patronize women--you only patronize me.
Of course, everyone understood how unsuitable it would be to ask Sir Charles to patronize parish excursions and events.
Marion, turning to take her brother's arm, "do patronize me for one minute!
I make it a principle never now to patronize the paper currency or bullion ca m'est egal.
They did not talk to her, either because they were afraid she could not talk of the things they could talk of, or that they could not talk of the things she could talk of, or because they were anxious not to seem to patronize her.
Bernard, and his wife has undertaken to patronize him, and introduce him to good society.
They began to buy blacking and neckties and white shirts, and to patronizethe barber.
You would not patronize true, unpretending, honest merit, but you are attracted by my glittering casque, my sweeping crest, my waving plumes.
Lord Henniker, a member of the Royal Society, who is spoken of as a man of judgment and talents, condescended to patronize the astonishing discovery, and at different times bought three pairs of Tractors.
But the Marquis of Anglesea and Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer patronize Homoeopathy; the Queen Dowager Adelaide has been treated by a Homoeopathic physician.
At fashionable places, on board steamers, he avoids his compatriots and introduces himself into the aristocracy, always glad to patronize people who have money.
I knew--I felt sure that, if Ella let you borrow that dress, Isabel would begin topatronize you!
She wanted to be one of this group herself, to patronize instead of accepting patronage.
The older vessels were scrapped or reduced to tug service and finer steamboats were built; and once upon the water the engines were driven at full speed that quicker trips might lure passengers to patronize the swifter boats.
For some time afterward many persons refused to patronize the railroad in spite of all the authorities could do to soothe them.
This, I am glad to say, was the last of Raymond's endeavors to patronize the arts.
He tended to patronize them, and he began to deal with them rather informally and much too confidently.
He neither offended Ormond's pride by seeming to patronize or produce him, nor did he let his timidity suffer from uncertainty or neglect.
It was a sentimental comedy, and I did not much like it; however, I was all complaisance for my mother's sake, and she in return renewed her promise to go with me to patronize Shylock.
There had been a world of philosophy in his brief remark that a man does not tell all he knows; and my fencing bout with him was still too fresh in my mind to permit me actually to patronize him.
She adores power, and if she is allowed to help and patronize people, she will be perfectly happy in her way.
And if you've got a good pocket-knife I'll patronize you so much more.
Respectable men patronizethe better class bar-rooms, and respectable women the ladies' restaurants.
The women always excite our pity, and we patronize them in preference to the men.
They sport an abundance of flashy jewelry, patronize the cheap places of amusement, and are seen in the low concert saloons, and other vile dens of the city.
For myself, I found that I was expressing my tendency to lavish expenditure, and to patronize Herbert, and to boast of my great prospects, before I quite knew that I had opened my lips.
Yet I do not call to mind that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronize me.
Surely had he wished to patronize the poet, he could have done so most easily and most surely by giving him some honorable post in his own control.
One other suggestion-was John of Gaunt likely to have had enough interest in poetry to patronize a poet?
I'll patronize your precious Mary-'Gusta, but I WON'T associate with her.
Believe me, no Deities (out of their own houses) patronize immorality; none patronize unruly passions, least of all the fierce and ferocious.
We abominate the Deities whopatronize them, and we hurl down the images of the monsters.
No state," says Nietzsche, "would ever dare to patronize such men as Plato and Schopenhauer.
No state would ever dare topatronize such men as Plato and Schopenhauer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patronize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
