low-born

Example Sentences

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The four band members were low-born Northerners from a dingy port town with no formal education; their success was against the natural order of things, an act of effrontery.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2023

Gaveston was low-born, arrogant, prone to insulting the nobility, and was hoovering up titles and wealth at the expense of those who thought themselves more entitled.

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2022

Among other things, Rand’s existence shows that you should always believe the ancient prophesy that even the low-born can save the world – and that characters in TV fantasy series must always have two names.

From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2019

In November, Michael Boyd will direct “Tamburlaine,” Marlowe’s story of a low-born conqueror, with John Douglas Thompson in the title role.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2014

Late on the afternoon of the next day, Belitsum, the low-born second wife of Nabonidus, sat, as usual, in the court-yard of her part of the seraglio, in her usual canopied idleness.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton