How to Use the nobility in a Sentence

the nobility

noun

• One of the themes was the nobility of the Sailor Guardians overcoming hardships.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 28 June 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
• The facility was like a dude ranch, where the nobility played winemaker for a day.
  — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 20 Apr. 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
• 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
• 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
• The Chic Rabbi collection (fall 1993) was incredible for its volumes, in the nobility of the subject, and at the same time in its modernity, its elegance.
  — Tina Isaac-Goizé, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2023
• Christopher Zook’s company is not about providing investors the chance to win and wear a World Series ring, or the opportunity to shake hands with the finest players in the game, or the nobility of helping to uplift a city through sport.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 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
• 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
• The latter, also known as portrait busts, were made as lifelike memorials for the dearly departed, typically carved of marble and owned by the nobility.
  — New York Times, 11 Apr. 2022
• The festival first took place in 1873 and is thought to have originated as a small-scale but fiercely felt local defiance against the nobility of nearby Lucca, who descended to the coast during the winter season.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 22 Feb. 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
• With melodrama, the grandeur of tragedy is replaced by nearly comedic coincidences and near-misses, the nobility of expression by expressive exaggerations.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
• But the dying king ignored this suggestion, perhaps realizing the Woodvilles’ social-climbing ways had alienated other prominent members of the nobility.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
• The military, meanwhile went to great lengths to honor soldiers with patriotic displays centered on the nobility of military service, notably during college and professional sporting events.
  — Risa Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2021
• Unfortunately, the fashionability of being vaccinated against smallpox amongst the nobility did not trickle down to the Russian population at large, particularly in the outer regions of the empire.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024