highborn
Example Sentences
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When he comes upon Irontown, led by the highborn Lady Eboshi, and listens to its people brag about burning down the boar god’s forest, one might expect him to be angry.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
A highborn Athenian named Thucydides recognized at once that a transformative conflict was beginning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Historically, British queens have tapped highborn “ladies-in-waiting” to provide company to the monarch and serve as personal assistants and loyal friends.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2022
You need grains of life for an ethical dilemma, you need an understanding of work and people, whether in 90 minutes of trash or something more highborn.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
The Wall offered few of the comforts that southron ladies and little highborn girls were used to, and the Nightfort offered none.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
