How to Use nobleman in a Sentence

nobleman

noun
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  • Yéil learns of a nobleman who lives at the head of a river.
    — Sarah Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The Queen drank, then each nobleman was served in turn.
    — Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 21 June 2024
  • Faran Tahir plays the ruthless nobleman on a quest for the English throne.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2018
  • The first recorded mention of the work dates to the 1930s, when it was housed at a British nobleman’s Welsh estate.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The story goes more or less like this: A nobleman is out hunting with his hawk.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 May 2018
  • Many of her clients were wealthy noblemen and statesmen who had promised to support her in her old age.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The second figure in the cast is a French nobleman who sported a waxed mustache and a grand name.
    — Edward Dolnick, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • The alabaster head is likely that of a nobleman in Alexandria.
    — Ella Cerón, Teen Vogue, 12 July 2018
  • In France, though, the term was more specific: a duke was a nobleman who ruled a large area of land (a duchy) but still owed allegiance to a king.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2023
  • Toward the end of the service, an elderly nobleman fell down the steps of the throne while paying homage to Victoria.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2023
  • In the show, Jane is married off to English nobleman Guilford Dudley against her will.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 27 June 2024
  • Alistair grew up the son of an English nobleman during the reign of Edward II.
    — Absurdity, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Some scholars say the patron was a local nobleman; others suggest ties to a monastery.
    — Celestine Bohlen, New York Times, 15 July 2019
  • Woolf’s novel tells of an Elizabethan nobleman and poet who abides through the centuries and migrates from the male gender to the female.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
  • First there is a doomed love story between a mermaid (Jun Ji-hyun) and a nobleman (Lee) during the Joseon period.
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Oscar Isaac stars as a nobleman in charge of a brutal and treacherous desert planet.
    — Emma Dibdin, ELLE, 31 Dec. 2021
  • There’s thorny history between Tassing and the nobleman, a patron of the abbey, owing to the latter’s less-than-savory visits over the years.
    — Vulture, 29 Nov. 2022
  • In her version of the story, the nobleman and his family have attendants.
    — Sarah Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2022
  • In the note, the composer asks an unnamed nobleman to pay him an afternoon visit.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 1 July 2024
  • She is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of a troubled young woman (Adèle Haenel) who is promised to a Milanese nobleman.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2024
  • My father was a big man, but some previous Squire Bracebridge had been beefier and had stretched the nobleman’s leotards.
    — National Geographic, 25 Jan. 2016
  • The building, which seated 2,500 people, was filled with statues of horses and noblemen.
    — Tomas Weber, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The play is plotted around the mistreatment of an elderly nobleman by his two daughters.
    — Linda R. Phillips, The Conversation, 14 June 2019
  • Martín lived the life of a young Spanish nobleman, essentially.
    — Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2023
  • No exemption is to be given to a nobleman because of his nobility, or to a wealthy man in regard to his wealth.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
  • No exemption is to be given to a nobleman because of his nobility, or to a wealthy man in regard to his wealth.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
  • Peasants and noblemen looked skyward, awestruck by the beast’s ferocious might.
    — Bess Kalb, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
  • This transformation works—the nobleman’s daughter scoops him up in a ladle and swallows him.
    — Sarah Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2022
  • After a thrilling summer romance, the pair are set to tie the knot before moving to the U.K. to live under the glare of the nobleman’s closeminded, traditional brood.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
  • In this re-telling Don Quixote, two scamps traveling through 16th-century Spain will tell the adventures of the chivalrous nobleman.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2018

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