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.
  • But will Sky try to rescue his mentor and father figure?
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 24 Jan. 2021
  • Along the way, Kerr said, Olson became a kind of father figure.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2021
  • Myhre became a father figure to Kamara and made sure college coaches knew about him.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2024
  • But as of this week, Wayne’s new surrogate father figure is one Donald J. Trump.
    — Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Wanda is disappointed, but Pietro volunteers to step in as father figure.
    — Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2021
  • But his secret weapon is the great Patrick Stewart, cast against type as the menacing father figure of their tormentors.
    — Jason Bailey, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2020
  • But in addition to his activism work, Benton-Banai was also a father figure.
    — Amy Forliti, Star Tribune, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Tavaughn Lewis, 27, remembered Malone as a father figure.
    — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2020
  • David Fincher’s bleakly stylish thriller casts Freeman in one of his many roles as a cop and a father figure (in this case, for Brad Pitt).
    — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Rough phone calls to get this morning to tell me, our dear family member, Pat Patterson who was my pro wrestling mentor and father figure has passed away.
    — Allen Kim, CNN, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Charles’ beloved great uncle and the father figure the judgmental Prince Philip (Tobias Menzies) can’t manage to be.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2020
  • In court testimony earlier this month, Morris, a 25-year-old who dropped out of school in 8th-grade, described Hari as a father figure.
    — Andy Mannix, Star Tribune, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Johnstone said that Scully, a former repair technician for the U.S. Army, didn't force himself into the role of father figure.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • Here are more than a dozen IPAs to gift the father or father figure in your life.
    — Jeanette Hurt, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • 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
  • Does the father figure in your life have a penchant for pungent pot?
    — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
  • When a father figure is absent in the lives of children, kids often look to someone else to fill that void.
    — Gus Malzahn, Orlando Sentinel, 20 June 2024

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