lordly
Example Sentences
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That team became the lordly Yankees, an “aesthetically evil” and “universally despised dynasty” that, nonetheless, Mr. Gittlitz grudgingly admits, has a lot of working-class fans.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Roan, dressed as a lordly knight, emerges from a castle and conquers it.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025
The nobility owned a significant percentage of the land of France outright – about one-third – and had lordly rights over most of the rest of it.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Arya meanwhile gets on a ship bound for “west of Westeros,” and Bronn, having perhaps threatened Tyrion with his crossbow offscreen at some point, minds the money of Westeros from a lordly perch at Highgarden.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2019
With its silvery green binding it looked plain, a poor thing among all the other grand and lordly volumes.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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