lordly

Example Sentences

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That team became the lordly Yankees, an “aesthetically evil” and “universally despised dynasty” that, nonetheless, Mr. Gittlitz grudgingly admits, has a lot of working-class fans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Roan, dressed as a lordly knight, emerges from a castle and conquers it.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025

Peter Dinklage’s mental patient is a lordly, theatrical Christ, who speaks fondly of opera and England.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2020

The nobility owned a significant percentage of the land of France outright – about one-third – and had lordly rights over most of the rest of it.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

The other was a stag, a beautiful lordly creature with wide liquid eyes, dappled flanks and legs so thin and graceful that they looked as if you could break them with two fingers.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis