Patton

[ pat-n ]

noun

1. Charley Charlie Patton, 1881–1934, U.S. blues guitarist and singer.
2. George Smith, 1885–1945, U.S. general.

Patton

/ ˈpætən /

noun

1. PattonGeorge Smith18851945MUSMILITARY: general George Smith. 1885–1945, US general, who successfully developed tank warfare as an extension of cavalry tactics in World War II: captured Palermo, Sicily (1942) and much of France (1944)

Example Sentences

Even before you factor in off-day adjustments, there is Golden State’s tendency to ease up — which confers a kind of legitimacy on Green’s Patton shtick.

From FiveThirtyEight

Patton managed her son’s early career and was instrumental in his mega success.

From Essence.com

“It would also have signaled more clearly to the whole country that we need to take the virus seriously, and work together to get it under control,” Patton said.

From FiveThirtyEight

Patton’s school was among those able to offer laptops and internet hot spots to families that needed them.

From Science News For Students

As anybody who has seen his now famous rant on Parks and Recreation knows, Patton Oswalt can get a little obsessed.

From The Daily Beast

Stacey Patton almost invents a new genre in her book of memoir and history, That Mean Old Yesterday.

From The Daily Beast

Patton is a triumphant representative of resistance in black America.

From The Daily Beast

Black children, Patton argues, are rarely granted the public privileges of childhood.

From The Daily Beast

The worst part, however, is the apparent text messages that poison the screen—seemingly a conversation between Thicke and Patton.

From The Daily Beast

Gibbon's father married his second wife, Miss Dorothea Patton, in 1755.

From Project Gutenberg

A filmy and diaphanous creature was Mrs. Patton also—one could never have dreamed of so exquisite a black butterfly.

From Project Gutenberg

Mrs. Patton was still in mourning, a filmy and diaphanous kind of mourning, beautiful enough to placate the angel Azrael himself.

From Project Gutenberg

And then he could have moved up to town, and got a frock-coat, and paid another call upon Mrs. "Parmy" Patton.

From Project Gutenberg

Mrs. Patton, he explained, was socially prominent—was looked upon as the leader of a set that went in for intellectual things.

From Project Gutenberg