Example sentences for: nobles

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

  • The island’s tranquility lasted until 1287, when Alfonso III of Aragón, smarting over a series of humiliations at the hands of his nobles, found a pretext for invasion.

  • 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.

  • Self-educated visionary Cola di Rienzo governed briefly in 1347 until the nobles drove him out.

  • Subsequent “licences” granted by the Ottomans to European nobles saw many prize friezes disappear to archaeological collections around Europe, including the Elgin marbles (ornately carved pediments) that were taken to London by Lord Elgin.

  • 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.


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