Example sentences for: nobility

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

  • Scapegoat , on the other hand, means `one who bears the blame for others'; it is a political word that carries with it a certain nobility and martyrdom that fall guy doesn't imply.

  • Editorialists, who do not depend on the press secretary's good graces, pointed out that McCurry has helped Clinton stonewall the Lewinsky scandal to death while deliberately remaining ignorant of tawdry facts in order to preserve his image of candor and nobility.

  • The most acclaimed and second highest grossing film of 1998 (just behind Armageddon ) was Saving Private Ryan . Though Steven Spielberg's film is fiction and Brokaw's book is something akin to oral history, they have in common a fashionable theme: the nobility of those who served in the armed forces during World War II and, by extension, Americans of that age in general.

  • The 1787 Constitution prohibits both the states and the federal government from granting “titles of nobility.”

  • Pombal dominated Portugal as an enlightened despot, banishing the Jesuits and executing certain members of the nobility who may have been involved in an assassination attempt on the king.


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