highborn

Example Sentences

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A highborn Athenian named Thucydides recognized at once that a transformative conflict was beginning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Fans from America to Europe to Australia bought his books and flocked to his one-man shows, and his potent doses of humor and hard truth enthralled both the highborn and the humble.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

It is while fishing around in her subconscious that Dr. Bruckner discovers her previous incarnation as Melinda, the highborn daughter of an antislavery crusader in Georgian England.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2018

That a hotheaded, highborn Southerner killed a working man confirmed Northern fears about the intemperate behavior of Southern defenders of slavery, according to Gugliotta.

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2018

In his dreams, she was beautiful, and highborn, and her eyes were kind.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin