Example sentences for: nobility

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

  • The big story was her brother's slap at the royal family: Diana was "someone with a natural nobility who was classless and who ...

  • After Sly became a superstar, he seized creative control of his films and moved the camera way up close, so that his heavy-lidded nobility and his musculature loomed large.

  • In the pleasure quarter of Edo, the feudal divisions between commoners and nobility broke down, and this "floating world" gave birth to new and vigorous forms of popular entertainment.

  • He moved the court to Versailles, impoverished the nobility by forcing them to contribute to the incredible luxury of his palace, and imposed as their sole function the support of the king in time of war.

  • His depiction of harrowing sit-ins "captures the courage and nobility of those small-scale protests that would transform America" (Tamar Jacoby, the Wall Street Journal ). Others say the 783-page book could have stood a heavy edit.


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