Example sentences for: nobility

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

  • 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.

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

  • --Godzilla retained a nuclear-haunted nobility.

  • 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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