nobler
Example Sentences
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Not so if you confess to streaming military thrillers while other, nobler souls are busy contemplating peace on earth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
The earliest on the program, “Jefferson and Liberty” from 1800, included the verse: “Here strangers from thousand shores/Compell’d by tyranny to roam;/Shall find, amidst abundant stores,/A nobler and a happier home.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2024
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
The writers could have employed Peters similarly in "Monster," for the nobler reason of ceding more space to people Dahmer's shadow obscured.
From Salon • Sep. 30, 2022
Ambitious men caught glimpses of nobler ambitions than their own, and even worldlings confessed that his beliefs were beautiful and true, although ‘they wouldn’t pay’.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
