How to Use father figure in a Sentence

father figure

noun
  • The coach was a stern, wise father figure to his players.
  • Those who looked up to him like a father figure.
    — Andrea Nakano, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • But this time around, the father figure has a few more tricks up his sleeve.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Robert Kraft is like a father figure to him.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The man who served as a father figure to many teens who didn’t have one of their own.
    — Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2026
  • His father figure, fiancée, and even his right arm.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 17 May 2026
  • Both are stalked by the shadows of father figures who have let them down and talked them down.
    — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The linebacker even called him a father figure.
    — Jeff Fedotin, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Go full-on ‘90s father figure and wear them with slouchy socks and shorts.
    — Rebecca Brown, Glamour, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Does the father figure in your life have a penchant for pungent pot?
    — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
  • Friends described him as a father figure.
    — Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • For younger patrons, the closure meant the loss of a kind of father figure.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Many pieces of clothing may persuade the father figure in your life.
    — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • That father figure is Joel, and the game takes on many of his attributes.
    — Julie Muncy, Wired, 12 June 2020
  • Smart will be leaned on not just as a coach, but as a father figure to pull his team through the season.
    — USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Rogers soon became a father figure and friend to Ford.
    — Irene Gonzalez, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • My uncle, who was also a father figure in my life, passed away a year and a half ago.
    — Tricia L. Nadolny, Philly.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • As a coach, you’re supposed to be the player’s friend and his father figure.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • A lot of these young college-age girls are rooting for him, this father figure.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Jeff Hyland was a mentor to so many and a father figure to even more.
    — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Many a person would tell you that dad became a mentor and a father figure in their life.
    — WSJ, 5 Dec. 2018
  • And that could be the father figure also in Russia right now.
    — Malina Saval, Variety, 11 Mar. 2022
  • One scene, towards in the end of the movie, shows how powerful a great father figure can be.
    — Maia Efrem, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
  • Whether that was a friend, a mentor, a leader, a rival, a coach, a father figure.
    — Dan Albano, Oc Register, 26 Apr. 2026
  • What is the most valuable trait that your father (or a father figure in your life) instilled in you?
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 3 June 2021
  • Don’t know what to get dad or the father figure in your life for Father’s Day?
    — Jade Chung-Lee, PCMAG, 16 June 2023
  • For the 74-year-old, Scully was a father figure in more ways than one.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Nigel once again steps in as a saintly father figure with access to a to-die-for sample closet.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2026
  • But when Julio Franchi met a boy in need of a father figure, his heart grew to meet the challenge.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2023
  • Slough House is a house in which a whole lot of kids live, looked after by a father figure, Lamb.
    — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2024

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