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How to use nobleman in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun

Nobleman means a peer; an aristocrat; ranks range from baron to king to emperor. Example: “He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.”

More sentences with nobleman

  • He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.From the entry marry
  • The noblemen visited the queen in her court.From the entry court
  • Sidqa was also a king and was thus a more valuable asset than the Ekronite nobleman.1999, William R. Gallagher, Sennacherib’s Campaign to Judah: New Studies, →ISBN, page 127. From the entry Ekronite
  • These are ship guards, trained in directing doddards to the latrines and dealing with drunk noblemen, not killing.2023, Brent Weeks, “The Time and Place for Honor”, in Night Angel Nemesis (The Kylar Chronicles), New York, N.Y.: Orbit, →ISBN. From the entry doddard
  • He looks piratical, with his beard and long hair and single pearl earring, or like a jumble-sale 17th century nobleman.2019 September 14, Miranda Sawyer, “Mark Leckey: ‘There has to be a belief that art has this power, this charisma'”, in The Guardian. From the entry piratical
  • A six-character inscription cast inside the bowl records that this gui was made for a nobleman of the E state.2014, Liu Yang, Cast for Eternity, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 15. From the entry e
  • She entered the nunhood after her husband's death and became a well-respected tutor of high-ranking noblemen and noblewomen.2007, William E. Deal, Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry nunhood
  • They were probably palanquin for the king, members of the royal family or noblemen and were used to attend unimportant ceremonies.1993, “Royal Palanquin”, in Heritage of Thai Culture, page 99. From the entry palanquin
  • Initial indications appear in the story surrounding “the first certain event of Athenian history”—the attempted coup d’état of the nobleman Kylon.1990, Philip Brook Manville, “Laws, Boundaries, and Centralization”, in The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens, Princeton, N.J.…. From the entry Kylon
  • In Lent noblemen and carls alike had got into the traces and pulled the carts of stone themselves.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!. From the entry carl
  • For centuries in Britain, the country’s noblemen have sat in parliament by virtue of their bloodline – but not for much longer.2024 July 20, Harriet Sherwood, “The last of the hereditary peers in the House of Lords”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry bloodline
  • Even though they eventually gave up booting around the decapitated heads of Scandiwegian noblemen, many of these old soccer games continued to be extremely violent.2014, Michael Cox, Fitter, Faster, Funnier Football, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry Scandiwegian
  • Her father had been so eager for her to wed a nobleman, but here he was conscioning Zeus' s dalliance with a tavern-wench!1997, Mallory Burgess, Beloved Heart, →ISBN, page 118. From the entry conscion
  • The king's anger over Sokhra's treatment of him was exploited by another nobleman, Shapur of the Mihran family, who helped Kavadh to remove the regent.1960, New Orient, Prague: Czechoslovak Society for Eastern Studies, →OCLC, page 24. From the entry despect
  • Sometimes envoys, noblemen (dvorjane), summoners (podvojskie), aldermen (starosty), and merchants also appear under their first name only: for example, the dvorjane Stepanko and Ivanko (Doc.1959, Astrid Bæcklund, Personal Names in Medieval Velikij Novgorod. I. Common Names (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis; IX), Stockholm…. From the entry alderman
  • And these things he had achieved currente calamo, “wielding his pen,” as Scott said of Byron, “with the easy negligence of a nobleman.”1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson. From the entry currente calamo
  • From all of which Isabel gathered that Lord Warburton was a nobleman of the newest pattern, a reformer, a radical, a contemner of ancient ways.1908, Henry James, chapter VIII, in The Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James), New York edition, volume (please specify…. From the entry contemner
  • There is also some Turkish weaponry and a parade harness; there are ornate woven carpets and the woven belts with which the noblemen of Poland tie their long żupans.2021, Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft, “Of how the world was born of God’s exhaustion”, in The Books of Jacob: A Novel, New…. From the entry żupan
  • On the left, a moustachioed nobleman, wearing a cloak and mandil (turban) grasps the cartouche with his right hand, and with his left holds up a bowl.2015, Willem Floor, Edmund Herzig, editors, Iran and the World in the Safavid Age (International Library of Iranian Studies; 2), London…. From the entry mandil
  • In his despatch the other day, Ferguson informed me that, according to the young Tibetan nobleman who brought out the letter, the Chinese have little control of the area.1996 [1963], Jack Higgins, Year of the Tiger, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 53. From the entry Rudok
  • The rule was actually in the hands of the most powerful nobleman, Sokhra of the Karen family, who had won fame in the war against the Huns.1960, New Orient, Prague: Czechoslovak Society for Eastern Studies, →OCLC, page 24. From the entry despect
  • When Mercy Harvey advised the nobleman to imitate her handwriting, she specified that he should write the address on the outside of the letter in "a small raggid secretary hand."1998, Eve Rachele Sanders, Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England, page 173. From the entry secretary hand

Meaning of nobleman

  1. noun A peer; an aristocrat; ranks range from baron to king to emperor.

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Questions about nobleman in a sentence

How do you use nobleman in a sentence?
Nobleman is used as a noun. For example: “He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.”
What is a short sentence with nobleman?
“The noblemen visited the queen in her court.”
What does nobleman mean?
Nobleman means a peer; an aristocrat; ranks range from baron to king to emperor.

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