How to Use nobility in a Sentence

nobility

noun

• They have shown great courage and nobility of purpose.
• This is the true nobility of nature, as insects, birds and plants work for their own needs and for the common good.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
• To this day, Spain’s royals and nobility still collect the brand’s wares.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 29 June 2022
• Even if someone is harsh to you, respond from a place of nobility.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2021
• How could a person from wealth or nobility give it all away, retreat from the world, yet change the course of history?
  — Andrew Doran, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• But Hemingway's belief that work and craft give life nobility stands the test of time.
  — D.j. Tice, Star Tribune, 5 Apr. 2021
• But to Page, Simon meant a lot more than romance and nobility.
  — Charlotte Walsh, Peoplemag, 3 May 2023
• There was a time when a title of nobility might have had some reason behind it.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 28 June 2021
• These were the homes of not just kings and queens but of knights and nobility stretching across hundreds of years, who each wanted to build a status symbol of their own.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 21 Mar. 2022
• The time has come to elevate the potato to its rightful place in the American pantry, to honor its nobility and grace.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 23 Mar. 2021
• Bush unfurl Holst’s melody in its full splendor, marking the glow, the nobility, the certainty of a mother’s love.
  — David Allen, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2022
• But the plays still reach us with their clarity, nobility and wisdom.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Why are so many counties and cities in the original 13 colonies still named after British nobility?
  — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023
• No other man made that long walk singing the Midwest’s hallowed words and hoping a live hymn could will them to boxing nobility.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
• The meat of common carp was held in high esteem and was at one point reserved only for nobility and clergymen.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 9 Aug. 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
• Reynolds points out that the shows displayed genuine pathos and nobility in addition to racist burlesque.
  — Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
• The Royal Court Investiture kicks things off in old-school style with a coronation that pays homage to Hawaiian nobility of yore.
  — Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 4 Jan. 2023
• Adam Smith had a deep and abiding dislike for nobility, aristocracy, and the leisured rich.
  — Kim Phillips-Fein, The New Republic, 27 Feb. 2023
• Prince Salim and Anarkali’s love, forbidden by taboos of nobility and class, comes to a tragic end when Akbar orders Anarkali to be buried alive.
  — Mansi Choksi, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• 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
• Smith had a deep and abiding dislike for nobility, aristocracy, and the leisured rich.
  — Kim Phillips-Fein, The New Republic, 27 Feb. 2023
• Among Portuguese nobility in the 15th and 16th centuries, for example, second- and later-born sons were sent to the front as soldiers more often than firstborn sons.
  — Lynn Berger, Time, 13 Apr. 2021
• Any other red would have made their coats less red, demeaning the glorious nobility of the uniform.
  — Longreads, 23 Mar. 2021
• But as deeply flawed and compromised as the character is, Ray found the nobility in a man who would run into a burning building for that same son and never break his stride.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2022
• Here, the pinnacle of Roman nobility got their hands dirty, playing farmer and winemaker for a day.
  — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 16 Apr. 2023
• His father was a lawyer, and his mother was a descendant of Piedmont nobility.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• Their courage has reminded us of the nobility of sacrifice for just causes.
  — Kori Schake, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2022
• Of course, there is nobility in celebrating the U.S. victory in a just war and honoring those who served.
  — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024