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

Bran tried to sound stem and lordly, the way Robb did when he made a command, but his voice betrayed him and the words came out in a shrill squeak.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin