How to Use noblewoman in a Sentence
noblewoman
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But the glamorous noblewoman has not emerged from decades of slumber in a glass coffin at the Kremlin just to feast.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
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An Italian noblewoman purchased two of the works, but they were looted by pirates and next popped up in a Tunisian market.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2020
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Born in the late 12th century, Francis was the son of a wealthy silk merchant and a noblewoman from Provence.
—Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
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Throughout the pandemic, Sarah spent much of her time writing about this fictional noblewoman.
—Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 7 Aug. 2021
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Sixteenth-century French noblewoman Marguerite got stuck with a lousy guardian.
—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
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But Keller makes his Olivia, a lovesick noblewoman who fights off unwanted suitors while coping with her pompous steward, the heart and soul of the show.
—Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 Mar. 2018
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Saúl is a brigand while Isabella is a noblewoman, and the tale tells of the couple’s struggle as their families oppose their union.
—Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
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His wife, Marina, a Polish noblewoman (who knows the truth), fosters his delusion.
—Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 31 July 2017
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In the painting of a young Italian noblewoman, collectors, diplomats and Nazis all saw a treasure to pursue.
—Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 13 May 2022
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This limestone canopic jar contained the organs of Egyptian noblewoman Senetnay preserved in balm.
—Popular Science, 31 Aug. 2023
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Cherubic teenage noblewoman Carmela is the nun in question, locked in the convent for fooling around with a peasant boy and refusing to marry her betrothed.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
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When [Lady Godiva] rides through town, in the legend, most of the townsfolk go into their homes and avert their eyes, so as not to shame their beloved noblewoman.
—Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 29 Apr. 2022
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Lawrence’s free-thinking noblewoman who has an affair with her gamekeeper (Jack O’Connell).
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2022
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Here, the grand portals to the spa are flanked by two fine classical marble statues, one of an unnamed noblewoman and the other of Julius Caesar.
—Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024
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The publication says the tomb of a Chinese noblewoman contained the skull and jaw of gibbon unlike any species previously known.
—Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 21 June 2018
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Cersei and Sansa would be cooped up in there with the other noblewomen and children, hearing occasional reports from the battlements.
—Joanna Robinson, vanityfair.com, 26 Sep. 2017
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Also on view at the Met is a sumptuous red velvet dress likely gifted by the Spanish noblewoman to a convent in Pisa.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2021
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The Don starts the opera by having his way with the noblewoman Donna Anna and killing her father, the Commendatore.
—Georgia Rowe, The Mercury News, 31 May 2017
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Givens, who currently costars on Riverdale, will pop up in at least one episode as Eudora, a loving mother to Tiana and benevolent noblewoman.
—Natalie Abrams, PEOPLE.com, 31 Aug. 2017
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Edward cruelly abandons his wife to pursue a wealthy and high-status noblewoman (Bella Heathcote).
—Robert Lang, Deadline, 27 Dec. 2025
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Toda Mariko, a noblewoman burdened with family shame, spends much of FX’s Shōgun yearning for death.
—Nicholas Liu, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
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And as the convent was not bought by the Catholic Church (instead funded by a wealthy local noblewoman named Catalina de Cabrera), the nuns were forced out.
—Rachel King, Fortune, 24 Dec. 2022
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Prince Philip of England is marrying Martha, a noblewoman, and all eight tiers of the buttercream behemoth are fit for the occasion.
—Laura Zornosa, Time, 11 Aug. 2023
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In the drama, Ophelia is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, who falls in love with Prince Hamlet.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
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Around the same time as Melisende’s rule, Zumurrud, a Muslim noblewoman, rose to prominence in the nearby city of Damascus.
—Katherine Pangonis, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
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These ancient vessels once held the mummified lungs and liver of a noblewoman named Senetnay, the esteemed wet nurse of the pharaoh Amenhotep II.
—Sarah Everts, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
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The British noblewoman, 61, shared the news about her health in an emotional first-person piece for The Telegraph on March 30.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025
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The treasure’s owner may have been a noblewoman fleeing the war, according to the London Times’ Bruno Waterfield.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2023
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He was born out of wedlock to a local 17-year-old noblewoman and a baron from the nearby town of Fiume, today in Croatia and called Rijeka.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 3 June 2021
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His first wife, Himiltrud, was nearly six feet (as befitted a Frankish noblewoman); her body can be seen in the crypt of the convent of Nivelles, Belgium.
—Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
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