patronize

• I met them in the cheap brothels I began to patronize, and the wretched saloons called doggeries, where I warmed my belly against the night air with dime shots of bad whiskey. —  FSF,March2008
• The communications studies and political-science major stressed that he sees the guerrilla-queer-bar group as a good thing for any business it chooses to patronize, and he doesn't anticipate any problems. —  The Daily Iowan - Online Edition
• Save receipts from any Manitou Springs businesses you patronize, then present them at the Manitou Springs Chamber of Commerce, 354 —  Gazette.com :
• If you do decide to write in ways that seem to generalize, patronize, insult, or demonize a whole group of people then take responsibility for your words and realize that people will be offended and upset. —  Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
• Would you have me publicly patronize, associate with, caress the mantua-maker_, in my own land, before my own kin? —  Fairy Fingers A Novel

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