Examples of lowborn in a Sentence
his patrician parents were very slow to accept his lowborn wife
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Ser Luthor Largent is introduced as a lowborn knight and office on the City Watch.
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Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Often described as the lowborn son of a blacksmith, he was born around 1485 in Putney, a village west of the City of London.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
Nor was there a payoff to the mounting tensions in capital city King’s Landing, where Rhaenyra’s lowborn advisor Mysaria (Sonoya Mizuno) has been sowing the seeds of rebellion among the common people.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024
Question 1 Who are Jon Snow's parents? A. Ned Stark and Catelyn Stark
B. Ned Stark and a lowborn woman
C. Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen
D. Lyanna Stark and Robert Baratheon
Correct!
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 27 June 2017
The Gilbert and Sullivan operetta tells the story of a ship captain’s daughter who falls in love with a lowborn sailor, against her father’s wishes.
—Jillian S. Jarrett, Washington Post, 17 May 2017
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Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Often described as the lowborn son of a blacksmith, he was born around 1485 in Putney, a village west of the City of London.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
Nor was there a payoff to the mounting tensions in capital city King’s Landing, where Rhaenyra’s lowborn advisor Mysaria (Sonoya Mizuno) has been sowing the seeds of rebellion among the common people.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024
Question 1 Who are Jon Snow's parents? A. Ned Stark and Catelyn Stark
B. Ned Stark and a lowborn woman
C. Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen
D. Lyanna Stark and Robert Baratheon
Correct!
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 27 June 2017
The Gilbert and Sullivan operetta tells the story of a ship captain’s daughter who falls in love with a lowborn sailor, against her father’s wishes.
—Jillian S. Jarrett, Washington Post, 17 May 2017
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“Lowborn.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lowborn. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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