How to Use chivalric in a Sentence

chivalric

adjective
  • There were plates, bowls, ice cups and serving dishes, each adorned with the chivalric order’s star and ribbon.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Cruise, still in love with what big mainstream movies used to be, has become a chivalric dreamer, striving to ensure their survival by sheer will.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 5 July 2023
  • The Bible also features warrior women who emerge as chivalric figures.
    — Jennifer Wollock, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Their inspiration has fired up a long series of activists who carry chivalric ideals of social justice into the present day.
    — Jennifer Wollock, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Because the feudal courts, chivalric codes, and aristocratic patronage that had sustained it were gone.
    — Daniel Birnbaum, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Sort of like if Don Quixote was 1/10th its length and about YouTube videos instead of chivalric romances.
    — Teddy Wayne june 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
  • Jewish laws also influenced the chivalric customs of medieval leaders.
    — Jennifer Wollock, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2021
  • In it, an old, retired, and slightly kooky nobleman named Alonso Quixano reads too many chivalric romances.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 9 May 2018
  • The nuanced set of rules resembles a chivalric code, positioning the players as modern-day knights protecting their brethren.
    — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
  • However, their tragic love story has formed the basis of our current cultural conception of chivalric love.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2024
  • This irreverent story of an aristocrat who reads too many chivalric romances was perfect for a broader readership.
    — Martin Puchner, Smithsonian, 3 Nov. 2017
  • In 1769, the prince of nearby Baden named him to the chivalric Order of Fidelity.
    — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 26 Apr. 2017
  • According to Sawyer, however, chivalric and historic stories would have been unlikely to find a place in monastic libraries.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The group hopes to expand this approach to study literary traditions in Spain, Italy, or other places where chivalric romances flourished.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2022
  • His books are romances in the chivalric mold, in which beauty, love and bravery possess a greater reality than the characters dedicated to honoring them.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
  • For hundreds of years, historians and literary experts have argued over why Chaucer would have mentioned the Song of Wade in his chivalric works.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 18 July 2025
  • Force Multipliers War is often presented as a chivalric affair of bravery, valor and honor.
    — Radu Magdin, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Yvain’s efforts to become worthy of Laudine, with the help of her sorceress servant, Lunette, are guided, and often misguided, by chivalric code.
    — Maile Meloy, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • Her personal collection focused on the medieval chivalric romance, Tristan and Isolde.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 Nov. 2022
  • In 2015, Welch was awarded the chivalric Order of Australia for exemplary service.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The poem uses this premise as a way to examine the chivalric binds that all Arthurian knights are placed in, as the anonymous author grapples with how to maintain one’s honor while retaining possession of one’s head.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 July 2021
  • Most of the writers attempting to imitate Tolkien weren’t steeped in the rhythm of Old English kennings, or the spiritual yearning of chivalric romance.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • Kingdom of Heaven was rare in its refusal to go that way, and the role of the chivalric and bombastic Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani exemplified that approach.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 May 2025
  • Orlando Furioso combines classical literary themes with chivalric romance and science fiction.
    — Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021
  • And what follows is a big, classic quest as the four kids journey through the countryside and learn about sword fighting, the chivalric code, teamwork, trust and the Lady of the Lake (who can be conjured in any body of water).
    — Lindsey Bahr, The Seattle Times, 23 Jan. 2019
  • The medieval era took the model of masculinity back towards basic, chivalric, Christian values, before the likes of Byron and Brummell shattered these ideas with the rise of the dandy.
    — Clive Martin, CNN, 15 June 2017
  • In fact, chivalric romance from this period frequently incorporated elements of fantasy, Trigg said.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 18 July 2025
  • It was first raised in 2006, after Andrew was made a Knight of the Order of the Garter, a chivalric order founded in the 14th century.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In these later romances, Arthur fully becomes a literary, as opposed to pseudohistorical, figure — a symbol of chivalric virtue, and of the inevitable (but still heartbreaking) failure of utopian dreams.
    — Jack Feerick, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Before our eyes, the boyish-looking Gaines grays his hair and affixes a gray mustache and beard, and his Cervantes becomes Alonso Quijano, an old country gent obsessed with the chivalric code of righting wrongs.
    — Eric Marchese, Orange County Register, 5 June 2017

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