Example sentences for: nobility

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

  • 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.

  • But unlike Bradley, he came away from the 1960s chastened by nobility's limits.

  • In the Feb. 19 "Summary Judgment," when reviewing the reviews of Roy Jenkins' Gladstone , you understandably fell afoul of those tricky British 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.

  • Fifty years ago, the close-range visual value of haute couture clothes emphasized their rarity and the rarity of their wearers, faintly implying that they were all hereditary nobility in the daily habit of entering well-appointed, finely proportioned rooms.


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