They don't remember what it's like to be 12-years-old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that. From LearnThat.org. [Walt Disney (1901-1966), American entrepreneur and cartoonist.]
We patronize this store. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The word patronize can be used about a Starbucks without too much of a pejorative flavor to it, although I patronize Peets almost exclusively!. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen's Lighthouse: What to call library user communities....] Reference
It would seem that there are only a few artists we can actually 'patronize' enthusiastically--Jim Caviezel, Eduardo Verastegui. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
Any other areas you are looking forward to "patronize"?. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"patronize" is quite the proper word to use in this connection. From Wordnik.com. [New Faces] Reference
"I don't think we should patronize non-union hermits.". From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
And they agreed to patronize, if "prices weren't too high.". From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
The lesson: patronize a tailor with an elastic tape measure. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Jiggle May Do You In] Reference
Emperors and queens lavishly patronize the national committees. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
We pledged to patronize the pair as long as they kept their shop. From Wordnik.com. [Living Life In The Slow Lane] Reference
If we get hungry before we reach Los Angeles, we'll patronize the diner. From Wordnik.com. [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference
Nothing remained for me but to patronize the bar, which I was doing, when. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
Neighboring countries patronize friendly groups, or try to undermine rival ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Lebanon Scenario] Reference
St James's Street, arm-in-arm with a young nobleman whom he condescended to patronize. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
They began to patronize the bar pretty extensively, and asked the barkeeper who I was. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
Fortunate the traveller who has already determined on the hotel he intends to patronize!. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Be sure that you patronize only the best operator, as you will surely regret it if you don't. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
Audiences should expect the actors they patronize to stretch and head in different directions. From Wordnik.com. [Beauty Is Only Skin Deep] Reference
There will be lunch all over the camp; but mind, I expect you to patronize our mess in particular. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
"Don't you agree with me that she would better patronize a justice of the peace?" asked Miss Swift. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
The audience was clearly beginning to patronize the traveler, and he was growing a little irritated. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Old Attic] Reference
I was so afraid of hurting some one's feelings, or of being accused of trying to patronize those girls. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference
The Oct. 28 issue of NEWSWEEK reported that 2 million gamblers patronize 1,800 virtual casinos every week. From Wordnik.com. ['Electronic Morphine'] Reference
Fortunately there are some hidden spots to patronize with lesser-known specials around Downtown Los Angeles. From Wordnik.com. [Finding Cheap Drinks Downtown] Reference
Europe's leaders patronize non-EU nations but cannot implement the simplest reforms to get growth going again. From Wordnik.com. [Who Needs the G8?] Reference
More frequently he would patronize the March Hare, and explain to him English words or ways that were puzzling. From Wordnik.com. [Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War] Reference
Meanwhile, shoppers continue to patronize privately-owned supermarkets that may or may not exist in the future. From Wordnik.com. [Venezuelan Shoppers Confront Rationing, Shortages] Reference
Surly Bob had it in for me I'd patronize the New York Central Railroad, and take a train out of town right away. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts] Reference
They can work on improving the educational system so young people will have the sense not to patronize bad movies. From Wordnik.com. [Save Us From Saviors] Reference
But you are half right; I certainly do not patronize book-making; and yet all summer I am reading the book of Nature. From Wordnik.com. [Rich Enough a tale of the times] Reference
There may be others who patronize these delightfully situated riverside inns, but the former predominate in the season. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
For men who spend their hard-earned rocks won't patronize the man who must forever, when he talks, make truth an also ran. From Wordnik.com. [Rippling Rhymes] Reference
The son was inclined to patronize old acquaintances and affected a multitude of expensive tailored clothes and a light cane. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
Then, putting the cash in his pocket, said with a low bow, "Thank you, alderman; for this, I'll always patronize your porter.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
And people never seek a store to hear a grouchy merchant roar; they'll patronize the wiser gent who doesn't air his discontent. From Wordnik.com. [Rippling Rhymes] Reference
Italians, is shown by the fact that they continue to patronize our people, and that in various lines Chinamen have the monopoly. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
The Albanians responded by creating a parallel society, boycotting Serb institutions and refusing to patronize their businesses. From Wordnik.com. [’Daddy, They’Re Killing Us’] Reference
We see often among them the light, careless temperament which marks the French; these are the men who support the theatres, and patronize the gaming-dens. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
Its colossal results, however, so overwhelmed him that he forthwith announced his belief that New York would patronize two Hippodromes, and his intention of building a second. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
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