How to Use noble in a Sentence

noble

1 of 2 adjective
Definition of noblenext
Synonyms for noblenext
  • He was a man of noble character.
  • It was noble of her to come forward with this information.
  • Barter is cast as the noble truth-seeker, which is fair enough.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2024
  • These were noble acts, and Gooch is right to celebrate them.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • And seeking to make sense of the world and its images is, in fact, a noble quest with a long history.
    — Rhonda Garelick, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The room, referred to as the cloister, is known to house the tombs of several noble families from the 1300s.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
  • If Erdoğan had blinked, then Musk would have looked noble for once.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 15 May 2023
  • His square jaw is noble, his lips pursed, his neck well-muscled.
    — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Either be noble like her brother against Namor or do what needs to be done and kill him.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 Nov. 2022
  • It is seen as both right and noble to follow your dreams to the detriment of all your other desires.
    — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Middle Earth is a few centuries past a brutal war between the noble elves and the evil Morgoth.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2022
  • There are both noble calls to the angels of our better nature and far-right racist demagogues who speak to the dark and evil side.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Yet society and the church are falling short of this noble ideal.
    — Timothy Dolan, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2023
  • This project is noble, though the author’s reliance on old-school routines and hackneyed tropes makes the play seem rather creaky.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Not because of any kind of noble commitment to knowledge or love of books.
    — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2024
  • For those with deep enough pockets, there is a mansion in Michigan that can grant a taste of that noble lifestyle.
    — Hunter Boyce, ajc, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Eddie Murphy hasn't moved on from his noble steed quite yet!
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Thousands of yellow rubber ducks will soon set sail for a noble cause.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Dante and his partner had been trying to adopt a child for years, making this one of the few noble things Joe has done throughout the series.
    — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 8 Feb. 2023
  • House Atreides, the noble family that oversaw the rule of the spice-rich planet Arrakis, is no more.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Tens of billions of dollars were raised and there was a really noble desire to help.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Because soon enough the picture is going to get much more shaded, much less noble.
    — The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023
  • Modern-day Westerns—that is, films that use the genre’s tropes and traditions but are set in the present—have a noble history.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Deere says its high-tech machinery serves a noble purpose: feeding the world.
    — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 18 May 2022
  • Bel is noble to a fault, but his fealty to the Galactic Empire is waning.
    — José Adorno, BGR, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Use noble fir for table arrangements, mailbox decor, and swags for sconces and front doors.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 12 Nov. 2023
  • That section’s noble hymn theme was less strings-heavy than usual, flowing with ease.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The ludicrousness of the journey is the whole point: Chickie, along with his pals at home, thinks his soldier friends are fighting for a noble cause.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Whether a man’s blood is noble or base determines his identity and fate.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Conclusion Serving as a fiduciary can be a noble act and be of great help to family members, friends, or loved ones.
    — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
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noble

2 of 2 noun
  • As the nobles once dined in splendor, their tombs lay in splendor.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 July 2019
  • The story goes that the nobles lured Rasputin to the Youssupov Palace and fed him food and wine laced with cyanide, which had no impact on him.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Wari nobles polished off their chicha and threw their prized drinking cups into the flames.
    — Megan Gannon, National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2019
  • In past coronations, there was a segment when dukes and other nobles would to swear fealty to the new monarch.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • The men — nobles, cavalry and foot soldiers — are dressed in knee-length tunics.
    — Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
  • That includes items such as armbands, necklaces, earrings, and nose plugs worn by Aztec rulers, priests, and nobles.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 14 June 2018
  • In the crypt, the child’s coffin rests near dozens of other wooden burial boxes, some of which held the bodies of Aragonese princes and Neapolitan nobles.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
  • In the crypt, the child's coffin rests near dozens of other wooden burial boxes, some of which held the bodies of Aragonese princes and Neapolitan nobles.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2018
  • The quest for grand portraits is not a new concept, of course; medieval nobles commissioned the best artists to depict their power and wealth.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • An English commoner dons the armor of a dead jouster and, with the help of friends, competes against nobles in 14th-century France.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Against them fight a declining race of nobles, led by Prince Sunmyra, and one of the peasant warriors, Belovar.
    — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
  • Researchers speculate the silver seal may have been owned by a noble who was unaware it was set with a Roman gem.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2021
  • Women in the Roman Empire used lead makeup to whiten their faces, and in the 16th century, English nobles did pretty much the same thing.
    — National Geographic, 22 Sep. 2016
  • Portraits of Mughal rulers, or of nobles cavorting, can be lovely.
    — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Even without relying on the typical nobles, kings and Catholic Church as patrons, Dutch artists still did just fine.
    — Rick Steves' Europe, The Seattle Times, 14 Nov. 2018
  • The vestiges of British rule and Irish nobles, forts and castles, dot the landscape, along with stone dolmens, built thousands of years ago, but for what purpose and how remains a mystery.
    — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The incessant attacks of Provence and Chartres against the royal couple stirred up the hatred of the nobles while disastrous consequences.
    — Town & Country, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The idea is that this resembles the way medieval Dutch nobles and farmers haggled over maintaining the dikes and canals that kept their polders above water—and over how to split the bill.
    — The Economist, 9 July 2019
  • Some are nobles who have unfortunately landed in the area and can’t escape.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2017
  • However, to return to the role of the emperor, Smith was pessimistic that slavery could be abolished, even in a monarchy, as such an act would upset the nobles.
    — Iain Murray, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Wars are expensive, and John sought to pay for them by taxing England’s nobles, who did not take kindly to his attentions.
    — Adam Chodorow, Slate Magazine, 17 Apr. 2017
  • In other words, the nobles extracted a say in government in return for the king’s right to tax them, conditioning that right upon the consent of the governed.
    — Adam Chodorow, Slate Magazine, 17 Apr. 2017
  • Instead, there seems to have been a pool of potential sacrifices that nobles could draw upon on request.
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 18 June 2017
  • Wearing a white uniform had been a tradition since 16th-century France, where the nobles wore it playing indoor jeu de paume.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2023
  • As such footwear became longer, Parliament passed a law in the mid-14th century forbidding all but the highest nobles to wear shoes or boots with a point longer than two inches.
    — Ana María Velasco, National Geographic, 17 Jan. 2024
  • What Roman nobles deem bad and good, Christians deem good and evil; pride becomes sinful and meekness beautiful.
    — Ryan Shinkel, WSJ, 21 July 2017
  • The glyph representing the Mayan calendar’s fourteenth month features the fruit, and Aztec nobles often received it as tribute.
    — Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • For centuries the dramatic appeal of the Amalfi Coast has attracted some of the most famous people in the world, from Roman nobles to legendary writers and celebrities.
    — Jim Dobson, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • That allowed the hard-up nobles to issue, in 1770, the first Pfandbrief: a tradable bond, secured on individual properties and the assets of the whole Landschaft.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The White House is an imperial court, with Trump as fickle monarch and everyone else befuddled nobles trying to respond to his whims.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 June 2019

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