Example Sentences

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Colombia is also trying to emerge from 50 years of fighting spawned by a complex blend of leftist rebels, paramilitaries and drug lords.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

However, this tourney attracts lords and knights from great houses throughout Westeros, including a couple whose families figure prominently in “Game of Thrones.”

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2026

Cheney even came to relish all the comparisons to dark lords of the “Star Wars” franchise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

Its inhabitants are those of “there will always be an England” England: stern vicars, timid curates, lords and earls, penniless titled wastrels living on allowances from their uncles, imperious aunts, upper-crust twits.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025

At dawn three lords of Stormhold rode down the craggy mountain road in a coach pulled by six black horses.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman