lowborn

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

But Jan. 28, 1922, was also emblematic of the city itself, a place where out-of-town politicians and foreign diplomats lived among native-born locals, where the well-born and the lowborn could share armrests.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2022

But Ballad offers new insight into how the Capitol’s leading families viewed the rest of Panem, especially anyone “district,” like Coriolanus’ rich but lowborn friend, Sejanus.

From Slate • May 22, 2020

As Thomas Cromwell, More’s prosecutorial nemesis, Todd Cerveris has thuggishness enough but not the bristling intelligence that elevated the lowborn Cromwell to power.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2019

Jon — along with nearly everyone else in Westeros — believes he is the illegitimate son of Ned Stark and a lowborn woman.

From Time • Aug. 16, 2017

The first thing her father had done on his ascension wgs to expel his own father’s grasping, lowborn mistress from easterly Rock.

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