NOBLE in a Sentence

Learn NOBLE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

231 example sentences for NOBLE, such as:

1. He died for a noble cause.
2. Live a noble and honest life.
3. The more noble the more humble.
4. A train of armed men, some noble dame.
5. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

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 Meanings and Examples of NOBLE
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noble
 a.  of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times
 a.  inert especially toward oxygen
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Her complexion was exquisitely fair, but the noble cast of her head and features prevented the insipidity which sometimes attaches to fair beauties.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  These locks were braided with gems, and, being worn at full length, intimated the noble birth and free-born condition of the maiden.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  At present, if we indeed journey to Ashby-de-la-Zouche, we do so with my noble neighbour and countryman Athelstane of Coningsburgh, and with such a train as would set outlaws and feudal enemies at defiance.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  It was not in places of general resort, or where their equals were assembled, that any avaricious or malevolent noble durst offer him injury.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  I also, and the noble Athelstane of Coningsburgh, speak only the language, and practise only the manners, of our fathers.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  Commend me to the noble knights, your masters, and say, I should do ill to deprive them of steeds and arms which can never be used by braver cavaliers.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  There was no want of distinguished and noble candidates to fill up the ranks on either side.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  Nothing could have saved him, except the remarkable strength and activity of the noble horse which he had won on the preceding day.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  Pardon me, noble Prince," said Locksley; "but I have vowed, that if ever I take service, it should be with your royal brother King Richard.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  The noble Saxon had returned from the banquet, as we have seen, in no very placid humour, and wanted but a pretext for wreaking his anger upon some one.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  A train of armed men, some noble dame.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  The noble and solemn air with which Rebecca made this appeal, gave it double weight with the fair Saxon.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  I am not wont to be baffled in my enterprises, nor needs a Norman noble scrupulously to vindicate his conduct to the Saxon maiden whom he distinguishes by the offer of his hand.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  Such usage shalt thou have as was once thought good enough for a noble Saxon maiden.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  It was a noble act when he saved his friend from drowning.
2  Live a noble and honest life.
3  They are never alone accompanied by noble thoughts.
4  He is never alone that is in the company of noble thoughts.
5  Good for good every man can do, good for bad only a noble man can do.
6  Sincerity, a deep genuine, heart-felt sincerity, is a trait of true and noble manhood.
7  His noble ideas and polite behavior are laudable.
8  He died for a noble cause.
9  All these noble sentiments have little chance of being put into practice.
10  His noble example inspired the rest of us to greater efforts.
11  The noble soul has reverence for itself.
12  Failure in a great enterprise is at least a noble fault.
13  The more noble the more humble.
14  Have clean and pure mind, noble sentiment; in each patient with a occupation smile; do not expect anything in return just offer in their heart.
15  He framed his life according to a noble pattern.