Matriarchal in a sentence

The black-and-white Nigerian feature brings a folk-futurist style to the tale of a battle between opportunistic militants promising technological progress and a matriarchal spiritual order living in fragile harmony with the ocean.

Additionally, matriarchal societies tend to be smaller and more isolated, making it harder for them to have a global impact comparable to patriarchal ones.

After staking claim to the entire matriarchal line, Zulu was willing to be generous on the patriarchal.

With the campus being 10 minutes from home, Jack’s matriarchal family are also ever-present.

As a matriarchal tribe, women in leadership gives the tribe strength and respects tradition.

First up is the queen of matriarchal power, with an easy-to-recreate look of long sleek hair, classic red lips and dark eyes.

Over here, in our so-called matriarchal society (where political and economic power still belongs to men), the President and his spokesman have given Filipino mothers a new role as enforcers of the community quarantine.

A modern, dreamlike take on the gangster genre, ‘She’s Just a Shadow’ tells the story of a matriarchal crime family that’s engaged in a vicious gang war.

At this point, I notice a matriarchal juror across the table is speaking both frequently and sensibly and that many participants are looking in her direction when they speak.

Even more surprising was the realization that males hunt more than female — something which is unexpected from a matriarchal species, and has not been observed previously.

Killer whales live in highly social, matriarchal groups.

This will be the first time the role takes on a matriarchal figure instead.

Also known as the "Dominant Woman" stories, the "Battle of the Sexes" stories often present matriarchal societies in which women have overcome their patriarchal oppressors and have achieved dominance.

As in natural conditions, sounders in peri-urban areas are matriarchal, though males tend to be much less represented, and adults of both sexes can be up to 35% heavier than their forest-dwelling counterparts.

Drow society, being strongly matriarchal, allows the females to hold all positions of power in the government, and to choose and discard mates freely.

Families are either patriarchal or matriarchal, according to the tribe.

Granny and Cinderella's Mother, who are both matriarchal characters in the story, are also typically played by the same person, who also gives voice to the nurturing but later murderous Giant's Wife.

In Baxter's novel, Aurelianus is a minor character who interacts with the book's main Roman-era protagonist, Regina, founder of an (literally) underground matriarchal society.

In the matriarchal system of the Siraya, it was also necessary for couples to abstain from marriage until their mid-30s, when the bride's father would be in his declining years and would not pose a challenge to the new male member of the household.

Jane Ellen Harrison’s famous characterization of this myth-element as, “a desperate theological expedient to rid an earth-born Kore of her matriarchal conditions” (Harrison 1922:302) has never been refuted nor confirmed.