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

Historically, British queens have tapped highborn “ladies-in-waiting” to provide company to the monarch and serve as personal assistants and loyal friends.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2022

He signs his poems — and, later, his scabrous articles in the Parisian press — Lucien de Rubempré, using his highborn mother’s maiden name.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022

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

She acts as ifshe has forgotten that, as if she were highborn and fair to look upon, instead of a slave in a grotesquerie.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin