“If employees don't patronize the stores, then it's difficult to see how they can expect customers to do so.”

“She didn't strike him as the type to patronize the local bar.”

“Again the recurrent question: How best to patronize the arts?”

“He has actually lived what careerist academics prefer to patronise and jargonise in structuralist abstraction.”

“I do not see that you would be able to patronise or outrank an independent person.”

“But she added the project now needed sustained support and for people to patronise the post office if the service was to be safe in the future.”

“But at every level, Clarke's proposal patronises these would-be undergraduates and sells them short.”

“Most voters think Labour's pink Woman to Woman campaign bus patronises women, according to a ComRes poll for The Independent on Sunday.”

“As she takes Pierre's statement, the policewoman patronises a pretty, young policeman.”

“Two locations of Jain worship in the Hoysala territory continued to be patronaged, Shravanabelagola and Kambadahalli.”

“Mingdi continued the policy of his father who had patronaged Confucian learning.”

“I hate being talked down to, patronised and being told what is right and what is wrong.”

“The old Forrest Hotel is now the Time, which is patronised only by the better element of rumpots in New York.”

“There is a big ego at work here, one that takes umbrage at being patronised and is not averse to bad-mouthing anyone he deems incompetent.”

“Consumers who patronized the T'Owd Lane store were assured of unadulterated food, true measure, and fair prices.”

“In the past many visitors have patronized my shop and this is usually quite profitable.”

“The Glamorgan gentry patronized the boisterous village wakes, and even established new ones in communities which lacked them.”