Sentence examples for like a patron from inspiring English sources

"I suppose in that sense he's like a patron saint," he said.

Like a patron saint of the videotape, he buys up the stock of other stores going out of business, including Blockbuster stores, most recently in October.

Most customers do not remember Linda, but she hovers above the boozy scene, on East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx, like a patron saint.

Here we had a public entity acting like a patron and saying, "Our job is to express the greatness of this region and its meaning to the world".

That was spoken like a patron, as the riders call the dominant rider who sets down the informal rules of the race.

Jibiki, who has long, shag-cut, tea-dyed hair and a soft way of talking, works behind the counter or walks among the tables, looking like a patron who's helping out.

If I learn, "Please, I'd like a Silver Patron with a splash of Cointreau and a wedge of lime, on ice,'" I'll be happy too.

"Ties between the media and the authorities are complicated and multi-faceted - it is like a patron-client relationship at times," says Kirdnark.

"It's like having a patron and being the guest of some prince.

From the mid-70s onwards, Charles began setting up charities – not as a patron like his mother, but as president, leading meetings and directing them from St James's Palace under the auspices of his charitable foundation, which he launched in 1979.

He listens to jazz like a consumer or a patron rather than like an artist; he doesn't enter into imaginative sympathy with the musicians, and he can't conceive or, for that matter, feel what the creator of "Spiritual" or "Dearly Beloved" finds necessary in "Interstellar Space" or "Offering".