nobler
Example Sentences
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Not so if you confess to streaming military thrillers while other, nobler souls are busy contemplating peace on earth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
Whether teetotaling, temperance or virgin, they’re just drinks, after all — though I suppose their intricacy beyond fresh-squeezed juice demands we label them something nobler.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2024
Known for inventing the fast break, McLendon made a far nobler contribution to sports by accelerating the acceptance of minorities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
Shakespeare in the Park canceled its Thursday and Friday performances of “Hamlet,” saying ’tis not nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of wretched air.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
Then everyone cheered or bayed or neighed or trumpeted or clapped its wings and the royal pair stood looking solemn and a little shy, but all the nobler for their shyness.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
