lowborn

Example Sentences

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But Jan. 28, 1922, was also emblematic of the city itself, a place where out-of-town politicians and foreign diplomats lived among native-born locals, where the well-born and the lowborn could share armrests.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2022

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