nobler
Example Sentences
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The nobler the cause, the nastier the graft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Known for inventing the fast break, McLendon made a far nobler contribution to sports by accelerating the acceptance of minorities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
Shakespeare in the Park canceled its Thursday and Friday performances of “Hamlet,” saying ’tis not nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of wretched air.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
It’s ridiculous how entertaining “Air” is given that it’s about shoes, even if it works overtime to persuade you that it’s also about other, nobler truths, too.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
He had chosen a country over us, as my mother had said, because it was nobler to take care of hundreds than one, or hundreds and one.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
