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
Ships, especially warships, were microcosms of society at large, filled with young boys and teenagers and old men, the uneducated and the highborn, all speaking a particular language.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2023
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
Unless you, gentle reader, are a highborn scion of the landed aristocracy, the inheritor of wealth and privilege, the proud bearer of a patrician sigil, do you imagine they would care about you?
From Salon ● May 1, 2016
Almost every highborn woman in the city sat at the long trestle tables, along with a handful of old men and young boys.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
