How to Use nobleman in a Sentence

nobleman

noun
  • Many of her clients were wealthy noblemen and statesmen who had promised to support her in her old age.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Raven re-enters the world as a human child, born to the nobleman's daughter.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Who in the United States would agree to be ruled by French noblemen?
    — Andreas Wimmer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
  • But the French nobleman had more than a strategic love for this future country.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2025
  • Faran Tahir plays the ruthless nobleman on a quest for the English throne.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2018
  • The alabaster head is likely that of a nobleman in Alexandria.
    — Ella Cerón, Teen Vogue, 12 July 2018
  • Other sculptures show how Raven tricks his way into the nobleman's home.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Nov. 2024
  • His performance as an out-of-favor nobleman doing his best to stay alive is marvelous, to say the least.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Some scholars say the patron was a local nobleman; others suggest ties to a monastery.
    — Celestine Bohlen, New York Times, 15 July 2019
  • In the aftermath of the war, Kick found love again with another nobleman.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
  • If nature has its noblemen, culture does, too, and Lewis Lapham was living proof.
    — Christopher Carroll, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • In the note, the composer asks an unnamed nobleman to pay him an afternoon visit.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 1 July 2024
  • Oscar Isaac stars as a nobleman in charge of a brutal and treacherous desert planet.
    — Emma Dibdin, ELLE, 31 Dec. 2021
  • In her version of the story, the nobleman and his family have attendants.
    — Sarah Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Hypocrisy, the French nobleman François de La Rochefoucauld once said, is the tribute vice pays to virtue.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026
  • The beloved ruler was supposed to care about the wellbeing of his people, but the noblemen beneath him were greedy and indifferent.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
  • In addition, while common soldiers were buried in mass graves, officers and noblemen were usually laid to rest in a church.
    — Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Toward the end of the service, an elderly nobleman fell down the steps of the throne while paying homage to Victoria.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2023
  • My father was a big man, but some previous Squire Bracebridge had been beefier and had stretched the nobleman’s leotards.
    — National Geographic, 25 Jan. 2016
  • Woolf’s novel tells of an Elizabethan nobleman and poet who abides through the centuries and migrates from the male gender to the female.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
  • In the show, Jane is married off to English nobleman Guilford Dudley against her will.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 27 June 2024
  • Her mother was a maid and her father was a nobleman, meaning that Sophie is not only a maid but illegitimate.
    — Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The Rice novel tells the tale of a Venetian nobleman and a castrati singer from Calabria who are both trying to make their names in the opera world.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Alistair grew up the son of an English nobleman during the reign of Edward II.
    — Absurdity, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
  • There’s thorny history between Tassing and the nobleman, a patron of the abbey, owing to the latter’s less-than-savory visits over the years.
    — Vulture, 29 Nov. 2022
  • She is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of a troubled young woman (Adèle Haenel) who is promised to a Milanese nobleman.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2024
  • She is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of a troubled young woman (Adèle Haenel) who is promised to a Milanese nobleman.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2024
  • First there is a doomed love story between a mermaid (Jun Ji-hyun) and a nobleman (Lee) during the Joseon period.
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The upper chamber of the British Parliament was composed of noblemen who inherited their seats for most of its history.
    — Jared Gans, The Hill, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The groundbreaking research penetrated the last moments of the young nobleman, who suffered a terrible 26 blows.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 10 Nov. 2025

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