lowborn
Example Sentences
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Bennett, a coaching savant since starting his career with consecutive 26-win seasons at lowborn hoops outpost Washington State, just achieved the ultimate validation.
From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2019
As Thomas Cromwell, More’s prosecutorial nemesis, Todd Cerveris has thuggishness enough but not the bristling intelligence that elevated the lowborn Cromwell to power.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2019
Jon — along with nearly everyone else in Westeros — believes he is the illegitimate son of Ned Stark and a lowborn woman.
From Time • Aug. 16, 2017
That’s true of Don, but it doesn’t preclude Dick Whitman, the lowborn child of a prostitute, from enduring his own bouts of blood and consumption when not under the guise of Don Draper.
From The New Yorker • May 16, 2015
The lance was a knight's weapon, Sansa knew, the Slynts lowborn.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
