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

Targaryens often place dragon eggs in cribs with their highborn babies with the hope that their hatchlings will naturally bond with them, which doesn’t always happen.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2024

You need grains of life for an ethical dilemma, you need an understanding of work and people, whether in 90 minutes of trash or something more highborn.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2020

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

George Pocock, in turn, learned something from the highborn Eton lads.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown