Example sentences for: nob

How can you use “nob” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A tour of Nob Hill (from California Street or by Powell-Hyde cable car), Telegraph Hill (bus), and Russian Hill (Powell-Hyde cable car) will give you a good sense of the past and present splendors of San Francisco’s more wealthy residents.

  • Russian Hill is less opulent than Nob Hill, but the gardens and immaculate little cottages of this fashionable residential area make it far more appealing.

  • The monumental Victorian houses of Nob Hill — home of the “nobs,” possibly a derivation of “nabobs” — burned down in the 1906 earthquake, and only the imposing brownstone house of James Flood, now the very exclusive Pacific Union Club, survived.


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