Example sentences for: nobles

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

  • More powerful royal stewards were sent out to diminish the autonomy of the regional parlements, councils with judicial rather than legislative functions, dominated by the high clergy and the nobles.

  • Yet again a minor — the infant James V — succeeded to the throne, and Scots nobles were divided as to whether Scotland should draw closer to England or seek help from her old ally, France.

  • Rebuilt in 1943, it holds the tombs of the 18th-century sheikh and other nobles.

  • The next year, a large group of Scottish churchmen and nobles signed the National Covenant, a declaration condemning the new liturgy and pledging allegiance to the Presbyterian faith.

  • To keep the support of the nobles’ armies, the kings had to give the nobles more and more land.


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