How to Use father figure in a Sentence

father figure

noun
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  • The coach was a stern, wise father figure to his players.
  • Does the father figure in your life have a penchant for pungent pot?
    — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
  • Perhaps the father figure in your life is in need of some pampering.
    — Alexis Bennett, Vogue, 16 June 2021
  • Here are more than a dozen IPAs to gift the father or father figure in your life.
    — Jeanette Hurt, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • Remember, this is about him, not you, so select something that suits the unique guy who’s the father figure in your life.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2021
  • Express your gratitude for the father figure in your life with words—quite literally.
    — Samantha Costantino, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • Michael is such a warm, welcoming family guy with a strong Chicago accent and he’s like the father figure.
    — Deborah Evans Price, Billboard, 8 July 2021
  • Edwards would serve as a CEO-type who would be a father figure for college kids and mentor young coaches.
    — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 18 June 2021
  • In appearance, the tough guy from Holyoke, Mass., is about as far from Ward Cleaver as a father figure can get.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 14 June 2021
  • The titular woman is an MMA card girl who takes up with a fighter in hopes of giving her son a father figure.
    — Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2021
  • If the father figure in your life could use a new signature scent, however, Macy's is making things that much easier.
    — Jon Winkler, USA TODAY, 11 June 2021
  • This boss has been a father figure to me for nine years.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Over the aux or on vinyl, here are the best Father's Day songs to jam to with the father figure in your life.
    — Mia Uzzell, Glamour, 19 June 2022
  • For younger patrons, the closure meant the loss of a kind of father figure.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Go full-on ‘90s father figure and wear them with slouchy socks and shorts.
    — Rebecca Brown, Glamour, 28 Apr. 2022
  • But when Julio Franchi met a boy in need of a father figure, his heart grew to meet the challenge.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2023
  • For the 74-year-old, Scully was a father figure in more ways than one.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2022
  • There’s all these men who look at him as a father figure.
    — Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Don’t know what to get dad or the father figure in your life for Father’s Day?
    — Jade Chung-Lee, PCMAG, 16 June 2023
  • And one that was in need of a father figure, of a family.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The men had just lost their beloved older sergeant, George Cox, who had been a kind of father figure.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Father’s Day is right around the corner and there is still time to buy a present for the father figure in your life.
    — al, 15 June 2022
  • Jeff Hyland was a mentor to so many and a father figure to even more.
    — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2022
  • And that could be the father figure also in Russia right now.
    — Malina Saval, Variety, 11 Mar. 2022
  • It’s a father figure, a strongman figure that attracts all of the orphan souls of the world.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Many pieces of clothing may persuade the father figure in your life.
    — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • Exactly the kind of father figure McRib Jr. needs in its life.
    — Vulture, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Myshaun Rice-Nichols, a cousin and father figure to Rice, was killed in a car accident when Rice was 11 years old.
    — CNN, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Furiosa seems to understand this about her onetime unwanted father figure — and learns from it.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 25 May 2024
  • So too was Shaun’s response to his mentor and father figure’s terminal cancer diagnosis in the finale.
    — Sarah Kurchak, TIME, 23 May 2024

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