How to Use ignoble in a Sentence

ignoble

adjective
  • But none is quite as ignoble as being razed to make way for a parking lot.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
  • That ignoble mini-streak ends this year.
    — Glen Weldon, NPR, 14 May 2026
  • This is a rapid and ignoble end for a leadership duo that came in during heady times.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2020
  • That would be an ignoble fate for a structure borne of such ambition.
    — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Take my advice and let this dumb media trope die a deserved, ignoble death.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2020
  • First was a movie starring Zoey Deutsch that also met an ignoble end.
    — Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023
  • This is something of an ignoble cap to one of the worst years of Rodgers' illustrious career.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
  • The principal adults in the story reveal that they are driven chiefly by ignoble motives.
    — Dan Hofstadter, WSJ, 25 May 2018
  • Wrestling history is littered with ignoble ends and performers who couldn’t quite accept that the show was over.
    — New York Times, 6 May 2021
  • Yet the upsides certainly outweigh the risk of an ignoble exit.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
  • This would mark an ignoble end to a promising political career.
    — Matthew Hennessey, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
  • If this story were a parable, our hero would likely suffer some ignoble end as punishment for his moral failings.
    — Hazlitt, 13 May 2025
  • To its critics, whitewashing is as ignoble as blackface and will be judged by history just as harshly.
    — latimes.com, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Police spend an ignoble amount of time pursuing dangers supposedly held off by that thin blue line.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2021
  • As camp stew moved away from outdoor barbecues, recipes increasingly dispensed with the more ignoble parts of the pig.
    — Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Of course, drinking at baseball games harkens one of the more ignoble moments in Cleveland’s sports history.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Others might be concerned about certain obsessive or ignoble achievements in games standing out in their timeline.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2023
  • With Comey’s sacking, Christie’s ignoble fealty could finally pay off.
    — Eric Armstrong, New Republic, 10 May 2017
  • Freddie's has been forced to close because the building isn't up to code, an ignoble ending to an inherently noble drinking hole.
    — Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 19 Oct. 2017
  • She wasn’t built for speed, but for ignoble tasks of scooping manure out of the barnyard and using her power take-off to operate other equipment.
    — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2017
  • Until then, there are the Razzies, an ignoble accolade marking the very worst movies and acting performances of the year.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The larvae vacate the premises either enticed by these culinary meat products or to avoid suffocation by meat, a most ignoble death.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2013
  • This ignoble tradition runs through the English-speaking tradition of rights and sovereignty.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2020
  • In his imaginary world, leaders of an ignoble nation begin to enslave children, and this atrocity sets off a world war in which millions perish.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 26 Oct. 2017
  • And just like that, Jerry Jones’ California dreaming was about to suffer an ignoble death.
    — Barry Horn, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The ignoble ends met by Ponzi and Madoff (and the empty pockets of their investors) have done little to dissuade new generations.
    — Eric J. Lyman, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2021
  • There were cautionary tales in the form of the ignoble chutes of any number of the fashion brands founded by his friends and contemporaries who had been less scrupulous in protecting their legacies.
    — Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, 20 May 2015
  • The rise of the internet and online shopping seemed to signal the ignoble end to the ubiquitous car dealership in the 1990s.
    — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Image To grande dame Fanny (Harriet Harris), their doubts are ignoble.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • The ban continued more or less on an honor system, with Playland Park going full-blast through peak polio season, the ignoble exception.
    — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 9 May 2020

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