How to Use nobility in a Sentence

nobility

noun

• They have shown great courage and nobility of purpose.
• These are boys — and then men — who earned their nobility, their place on the opera stage.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 16 June 2019
• But there was a touch of nobility about him, Coach Klum says.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 June 2024
• The corruption of the old world nobility was fresh in their minds.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 29 Dec. 2016
• In medieval times, the nobility owned vast amounts of land.
  — Don Tapscott, Quartz, 11 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Bernhardt, dressed in the style of Byzantine nobility, was flanked by white spaces, as though she had stepped out of the ether.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
• Witt was nice, Wayne’s a peach, and Danish had a certain kind of wily nobility about him.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
• To this day, Spain’s royals and nobility still collect the brand’s wares.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 29 June 2022
• Some of the best spots to take in Noto’s splendor are the residences of the city’s former nobility.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2024
• The fossilized tree resin is worked as a gemstone and has been used for centuries in the Baltics to make accessories for the wealthy and nobility.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• There was a nobility to the grueling work of digging for coal — and to the people who performed it.
  — Froma Harrop, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2017
• Even if someone is harsh to you, respond from a place of nobility.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2021
• The realm is full of young people, since adults who were considered a threat by nobility have been killed off.
  — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2018
• 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
• Walls are adorned with a mash-up of Asian art and portraits of European nobility.
  — Alice Short, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
• There was a time when a title of nobility might have had some reason behind it.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 28 June 2021
• Mario Mattoli brought us this 1950s tale of love and money, and, well, poverty and nobility.
  — Craig Cavallo, Saveur, 31 Aug. 2017
• Back then, the fear was an uprising by the nobility, the castle owners.
  — Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2019
• The hero of the show is the symbol for white nobility, morality and courage—a police officer named Rick.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 22 Oct. 2017
• 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
• But his care for Raleigh has a nobility to it and a delicacy that are fortifying even in the face of tragedy.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2018
• 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
• In 1780, a member of the native nobility, Túpac Amaru, launched a revolt against the Spanish.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Given the symbolism, and the obvious tragedy of his death, there will be those who ascribe nobility to Chau, and courage.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2018
• Americans might not have a nobility but our dogs do, though the populist in all of us loves a happy, scrappy mutt.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 24 Aug. 2019
• Their thick walls keep them warm in winter and cool in summer, and their furnishings—a mix of custom pieces and antique finds—offer a glimpse into the lives of Moroccan nobility.
  — Ann Abel, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024