How to Use patronage in a Sentence

patronage

noun
  • They thanked her for her patronage of the new hospital.
  • The college relied on the patronage of its wealthy graduates to expand its funds.
  • The city should do more to encourage patronage of local businesses.
  • Which is to say, that when the food is good enough, there’s enough patronage to go around.
    — Mara Severin | Eating Out, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Thank you to all of our customers and friends for their years of patronage.
    — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 9 May 2018
  • Trump’s patronage hires owe their livelihood to him.
    — Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Their menus offer some tasty food and need your patronage during this time as well.
    — cleveland, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Iran has secured great-power patronage for the first time in four decades.
    — Reuel Marc Gerecht, wsj.com, 8 May 2023
  • This would reduce patronage and cronyism, which have plagued our city for decades.
    — Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Many attribute his good fortune in those years to the patronage of Zhou.
    — Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019
  • Inside, the lengthy bar top had ample notches, scrapes and grooves from years of patronage.
    — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • That opened the door to corruption and patronage in the village.
    — Steve Schering, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2018
  • Such patronage politics lacks the drama of troops on the streets.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • But Amazon doesn't need your patronage, the small business down the street does.
    — Mark T. Mitchell For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Meghan's been busy since stepping down, both with patronages and in Canada.
    — Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Many of them have funded their fighters and patronage cliques from the opium profits for years.
    — Time, 17 July 2023
  • The four patronages are in line with what Meghan has said are important causes for her.
    — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 10 Jan. 2019
  • Marsh was the third in a line of Stanley’s propelled to arts patronage by their oil money.
    — Daisy Alioto, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Three of the four cities are already above their pre-pandemic peaks for bar and restaurant patronage.
    — Ramsey Archibald | [email protected], al, 3 Aug. 2022
  • This new patronage is on-brand for Kate, who is known to be an art lover and avid photographer.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 June 2019
  • Princess Kate's patronage is a newer royal role.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In practice, they are enmeshed in the same web of patronage and coercion as the rest of the system.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In their view, good art is more about the process rather than the result, and patronage is about friendship instead of genius.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz, 2 Dec. 2021
  • And despite the fact that the business model runs on the patronage of the elderly.
    — Bridget Read, Curbed, 18 Dec. 2024
  • This is part of the board’s structure as a patronage organ of the borough party machines.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 June 2025
  • This was the era of Tammany Hall, in which patronage, bribery, and fraud were the order of the day.
    — Nick Tabor, The New Republic, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Meghan, it was revealed, will take a on a new patronage in 2019 from the Queen.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2018
  • It’s also written by those with ready access to pen, paper, and, in many cases, patronage.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • These now bring her total of patronages up to 15, most of which are focused on children and young people.
    — Marcia Moody, Town & Country, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Diana’s visit came about because of her patronage of the Welsh Opera.
    — Town & Country, 28 Aug. 2022

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