How to Use the nobility in a Sentence

the nobility

noun
  • In turn, the nobility gave a small portion of their own life force to nourish the gods.
    — Kimberly H. Breuer, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
  • And so what felt important to me was Owen getting caught up in the nobility of this quest.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The facility was like a dude ranch, where the nobility played winemaker for a day.
    — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But the Wit, if used too often, is a perilous magic, and one abhorred by the nobility.
    — Ashlee Conour, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Certainly, the nobility wasted no time in getting rid of him.
    — E.r. Zarevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Someone else has decided to peddle gossip, and the nobility is ready and willing to eat it all up.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Someone else has decided to peddle gossip, and the nobility is ready and willing to eat it all up.
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 27 Feb. 2026
  • One of the themes was the nobility of the Sailor Guardians overcoming hardships.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 28 June 2023
  • Members of the nobility whispered plans to murder the mystic.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Aspiring to the nobility of being a Steven, but can’t quite achieve this exalted state.
    — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
  • There was a huge wealth disparity, and peasants were suffering under the rule of the nobility.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Alice is a Black woman carrying the weight of their new life and trying not to lose herself in the quest to fit in with the rest of the nobility.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 22 May 2024
  • Hence, Egg spends much of his reign crushing rebellions sparked by the nobility, who feel threatened by his loyalty to the small folk.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The talent would never come into question, but the nobility of the vessel was often under review.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
  • His father invited all the nobility of the region to a large festival to take place for three days, during which there would be much loud music and shouting.
    — Nell Zink, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The commentators are fully up to the task of capturing the nobility of these painful assaults, coming after hours of fast pedalling.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
  • In the north, Solomon knew, young oblates, the cherished daughters of gentlewomen, were given to the Lord out of the ranks of the nobility.
    — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • Rosheuvel’s Charlotte is a smirking virago who takes pleasure in playing the nobility like dolls.
    — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023
  • And, of course, one thing that can greatly help an outsider is the backing of the nobility, particularly those who have served as consuls previously.
    — Quintus Tullius Cicero, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2012
  • Our family manor was on the outskirts of the King’s territory, far from most of the nobility and day-to-day machinations of court, its customs, and norms.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 May 2025
  • Then, as now, those financially required to work for a living actually create the wealth, and the nobility hoard and ultimately weaponize it.
    — Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Still, every war produces casualties, and for all of the nobility of Lila’s cause, Alfonso ended up taking the fall.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Outside of the royal family and all their HRHs, the nobility ranking goes duke, marquess, earl, viscount, baron.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The fledglings were savored by the nobility and the clergy, who, according to Fritz’s research, passed decrees to keep commoners from killing them, to preserve them for themselves.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon may be known for its violence, but the real tension and drama comes from the secrets traded between the nobility.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 19 Sep. 2022
  • There was something Shakespearean about the gaunt, haunted face of Biden on stage squinting as if to see in a dwindling light, struggling for words even as the nobility of his purpose remained.
    — David Ignatius, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
  • Multiple copies were produced during the emperor’s lifetime for distribution among the nobility.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Socially, restricting the longest-toed shoes to the nobility ensured the shoe would be a visual status marker associated with the upper classes.
    — Michael Watson, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In Japanese crafts, pottery for example, there is an emphasis on the nobility of the process, with the repetitive nature of making a pot again and again leading to perfection.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 May 2023
  • Forget the mythology of arcane discovery and honor the nobility of those who turn the ordinary to sheer magic by never compromising and never resting one iota short of perfection.
    — Stephen Jay Gould, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019

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