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    Use "matriarchal" in a sentence

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    matriarchal


    1. We are a matriarchal society so women have always been the centre of our world


    2. I thought they couldn't be that bad if they were a matriarchal society of sorts


    3. In Coermantyr the office of the Baroness was passed through the generations on a matriarchal basis, from mother to daughter


    4. By evening they saw the brightly lit pinnacles of the matriarchal stronghold in Sharon’s region


    5. Marie on the other hand, doted on Elizabeth and saw as much as she could of her – telling her stories of the past history of her matriarchal family which Elizabeth found fascinating


    6. The death of Rory Collett signals the beginning of a Matriarchal Dynasty founded by Marie


    7. Even in the legends and oral histories of aboriginal peoples, women were the deities and, as in the earliest times of “Indian” tribes, matriarchal and matrilineal societies were the norm


    8. It's a hereditary position, though matriarchal


    9. For in a matriarchal society, the


    10. A matriarchal slap to the back of the head had elicited a raucous laughter from her older brothers

    11. Now the buried story of the squatters and the walkers begins to make sense: the constant fight between nomadic and settled tribes for over 100,000 years begins to make sense… The split between matriarchal and patriarchal human cultures begins to make sense


    12. The Seelie don’t recall a time the king didn’t exist and, despite the court’s matriarchal nature, the king predates the queen and is the most complex and powerful of all the Fae—lacking a single enormous power that makes him the Seelie Queen’s lesser: she alone can use the Song of Making, which can call new matter into being


    13. Incensed at the king’s betrayal and quest for power that was matriarchal, the queen locked Cruce away in her bower and summoned the king


    14. Once he had it, he planned to acquire all the Unseelie King’s forbidden dark knowledge, finally kill the concubine who had become the current queen and, as the only vessel holding both the patriarchal and matriarchal power of their race, become the next, most powerful, Unseelie King ever to rule


    15. It had a matriarchal twang


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    Synonyms for "matriarchal"

    matriarchal matrilineal patrimonial inherited patriarchal ancestral innate inborn

    "matriarchal" definitions

    characteristic of a matriarchy