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.

  • At its best, there is a certain nobility to the Kennedys' refusal to let life intimidate them."

  • The Herend factory has been turning out porcelain for the tables of the nobility since 1826; members of the British royal family from Queen Victoria to Charles and Diana have been customers.

  • The Piazza del Duomo forms a harmonious space for the graceful octagonal baptistery, begun in 1196, and the austere nobility of the 12th-century Romanesque cathedral and its 13th-century campanile.

  • A couple of years ago I wrote a piece of my own about Che in The New Yorker and, though I knew better, I ended up adding a superfluous nod to the innate "nobility" of this man whose fanaticism and lack of human sympathy brought about so much suffering and death.


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