Sentence examples for as a commoner from inspiring English sources

He impersonates Donald McAllen, frequently alluded to as a commoner.

Ms. Middleton is what is known as a commoner — a nonroyal with no aristocratic pedigree.

The couple good-naturedly fended off a question about Miss Wijkmark's status as a commoner.

As a commoner, Lady's Magazine reminds me, he isn't someone a woman of my standing would normally talk to.

Orthodox literature wants you to believe that Shakespeare was getting all of this out of thin air, as a commoner.

In the end, I agree to travel as a commoner: ditch the garb and off we go.

Cosima's biographer Olive Hilmes likens the regime to that used for breaking in horses, though Marek describes it as exacting but ultimately beneficial to Cosima: "Above all, Patersi taught her how a 'noble lady' must behave, how to alight from a carriage, how to enter a drawing room, how to greet a duchess as against a commoner... and how not to betray herself when she was hurt".

The Guardian, the Times of London, the Telegraph and the venerable BBC, among others, have all seen fit to dub her a "commoner". As accurate as the term may be, others here are wincing at the notion that a young woman whose family's self-made fortune is larger than many in the landed gentry is being so strongly defined in 21st-century Britain by her bloodline.

Never harass people on the basis of fake and biased reports....When you face a common man, think as if you were a commoner in his place, and as if you had no weapon...

Never harass people on the basis of fake and biased reports....When you face a common man, think as if you were a commoner in his place, and as if you had no weapon..

"Note this before my notes: there's not a note of mine worth the noting," he says, for it's the first time Shakespeare had given a complete song to an adult actor, and to a nobleman, as opposed to a commoner or page.