Example sentences for: nobility

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • In the New York Times Book Review Thomas Mallon faults Lidie Newton for "dutiful caricatures of white degeneracy and black nobility ...

  • 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.


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