highborn

Example Sentences

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A highborn Athenian named Thucydides recognized at once that a transformative conflict was beginning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Fans from America to Europe to Australia bought his books and flocked to his one-man shows, and his potent doses of humor and hard truth enthralled both the highborn and the humble.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

That a hotheaded, highborn Southerner killed a working man confirmed Northern fears about the intemperate behavior of Southern defenders of slavery, according to Gugliotta.

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2018

Francesca Muscolino, the 16-year-old daughter of Neapolitan immigrants, is no highborn Chekhovian sophisticate.

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2017

She acts as ifshe has forgotten that, as if she were highborn and fair to look upon, instead of a slave in a grotesquerie.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin