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
• 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
• The NSA’s use of covert domain names puts it in some ignoble company.
  — Kevin Poulsen, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2015
• First was a movie starring Zoey Deutsch that also met an ignoble end.
  — Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The principal adults in the story reveal that they are driven chiefly by ignoble motives.
  — Dan Hofstadter, WSJ, 25 May 2018
• Of course, drinking at baseball games harkens one of the more ignoble moments in Cleveland’s sports history.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 23 Mar. 2021
• 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
• Rather than suffer ignoble death at Vortigern’s hand, Uther Pendragon throws Excalibur into the air and receives it, kneeling, to the back of the neck.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 18 May 2017
• 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
• 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
• And just like that, Jerry Jones’ California dreaming was about to suffer an ignoble death.
  — Barry Horn, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2021
• To its critics, whitewashing is as ignoble as blackface and will be judged by history just as harshly.
  — latimes.com, 31 Mar. 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
• 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
• This would mark an ignoble end to a promising political career.
  — Matthew Hennessey, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
• 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
• A librarian at the University of Cambridge rescued the leaf from its ignoble fate in 1820, but did not seem to have realized that the text was a Caxton original.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 10 May 2017
• Fortunately, the ignoble fate did not come to pass, and the structure has now reopened as a learning center for Arizona State University.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2021
• 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
• The reasons are partly ignoble: In a country of 330 million people who have implements of mayhem within easy reach, bad things are going to happen.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018
• This ignoble tradition runs through the English-speaking tradition of rights and sovereignty.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2020
• 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
• With Comey’s sacking, Christie’s ignoble fealty could finally pay off.
  — Eric Armstrong, New Republic, 10 May 2017
• 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
• Image To grande dame Fanny (Harriet Harris), their doubts are ignoble.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 5 July 2018
• This year, however, has the ignoble distinction of being 2017, meaning there‘s no shortage of acutely dire causes to support.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 18 Oct. 2017
• Is one condition more noble than the other? Krauss: I’ve been committed to both conditions at different times in my life, and each is filled with plenty of noble and ignoble qualities.
  — Thomas Gebremedhin, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024