What is "matriarchs"

Usage examples of "matriarchs".

The matriarchs on Wess'ej had even held a meeting with her and judged her a useful ally.

Come with me and beg forgiveness of the matriarchs, and perhaps they will spare you.

It seemed they were being driven by respect for opinionated and exceptional matriarchs who were no longer around to enforce their own philosophies.

Had it been the matriarchs of F'nar who had said it, he would have believed it.

The usual backdrop of domestic noise, of scraping glass utensils and caterwauling matriarchs, had ceased.

Just as he knew the matriarchs used it to distribute their orders and information to Petraw throughout the galaxy.

Gradually, Luz's rants against Tasm shifted against the matriarchs and the other Petraw.

The matriarchs supported their children in their own body, using their own life systems to distribute nourishment and remove the waste.

The waving arms of the matriarchs and the buzzing of their thoughts warned him that more defenders were being dispatched from the blocks of cells.

It depended on how long it would take the matriarchs to rally the defenders and send them down to the gateway.

Gradually, Luz’s rants against Tasm shifted against the matriarchs and the other Petraw.

But when he shut out the noise—the squeal of calves, the constant background thunder of mammoths walking, eating, defecating—he could hear the Matriarchs rumbling and stamping at the ground, debating, sharing information that might sustain a few more lives through the coming winter.

Wouldn't you expect that the Matriarch of Matriarchs, the wisest of all, would be special?

The Matriarch of Matriarchs gave us our instructions at the last Gathering.

The Matriarch of Matriarchs was right that the mammoths have endured warming before, and recovered.