(a.) Celebrated in fame or public report; renowned; mach talked of; distinguished in story; -- used in either a good or a bad sense, chiefly the former; often followed by for; as, famous for erudition, for eloquence, for military skill; a famous pirate.
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
(3) Cameron famously broke with the past, and highlighted his green credentials, by posing with huskies on a visit to Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic in 2006.
(4) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(5) And Pippi Longstocking, her most famous character, comes really close to being the personified proof of that… So where did Pippi come from?
(6) It just seems a bit of a waste, I say, given that he's young and handsome and famous.
(7) BigDog Facebook Twitter Pinterest BigDog is a autonomous packhorse Funded by Darpa and the US army, BigDog is Boston Dynamics’ most famous robot, a large mule-like quadruped that walks around like a dog, self balancing and navigating a range of terrain.
(8) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
(9) Washington takes the role made famous by Edward Woodward in the 1980s US TV series that inspired the modern remake.
(10) As Justices Stewart and White famously said, "the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the areas of national defence and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry – in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government".
(11) Items deemed inappropriate now extended to Soviet writings on sexuality from the previous decade, when abortion was legalised and Alexandra Kollontai, the most famous woman in the Bolshevik government, called for the destruction of the traditional family — a movement reversed under Stalin.
(12) He was in Cruise of the Gods with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and David Walliams and, most famously, in the stage and screen version of The History Boys.
(13) In a country crisscrossed from sea to shining sea by some of the world’s longest and most famous roads, what could be more simple?
(14) In September 2007, Iran's former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad famously denied homosexuals existed in the Islamic republic.
(15) Born in a fashionable part of Manhattan on 1 January 1919, Salinger had a schooling that echoed his most famous creation, Holden Caulfield, with the writer asked to leave a New York prep school because of poor grades.
(16) At this time, the BPI was running its famous Home Taping Is Killing Music campaign, following concerns that cassettes would aid the infringement of copyright and a decline in album sales.
(17) Others will point out that this is a case of pot calling kettle black as Wolff is himself a famous peddler of tittle-tattle – the aggregator website that he cofounded, Newser, even has a section called "Gossip".
(18) That “social enterprise” is just a figleaf, which canny, profit-driven companies can manipulate (Emma Harrison, founder of A4e, famously used to call it a “social purpose company” before the Advertising Standards Authority, of all people, put a stop to it ).
(19) The Hard Rock Cafe has long been famous for its queue, but that was so odd it was a tourist attraction, something people pointed and laughed at.
(20) His mother is Denise Welch, late of Corrie and Loose Women, and his father his Tim Healy, who was briefly famous 30 years ago for his role in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
Renowned
Definition:
(a.) Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here's what you need to know Read more Speaking to Guardian Australia ahead of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, Krugman, a renowned columnist at the New York Times , predicted the slowing Chinese economy would hurt Australia, but said the country should not get “too hysterical” about it.
(2) Case histories are given to show how renowned analytical service laboratories and microbeam experts formulated their strategies to approach a real life problem, what type of conclusions were deduced from the data and, finally, how the problem was solved.
(3) Half an hour north of Tewkesbury is Upton-upon-Severn, renowned as the most flood-prone town in Britain.
(4) In Cefischer, who until his war-related loss of both upper limbs had been a renowned cartoonist, a comparison of his works, drawn initially by hand and later with the mouth, reveals his characteristic style of expression having remained the same.
(5) But there was worse to come: Alliot-Marie went on to offer the French military's "world-renowned savoir-faire " to Ben Ali's regime, and to deliver this savoir-faire to Tunis.
(6) Arsenal’s Arsène Wenger: I love Bob Marley’s music and the man that he was Read more Cazorla has travelled to his native Spain to see the renowned specialist Dr Ramón Cugat and Wenger did not rule out that the injury would turn out to be season-ending.
(7) The coalition thinks appointing Green to find further savings in this area demonstrates its willingness to allow others outside government to look at the books, but it is also banking on benefiting from the touch of a renowned businessman when what are likely to be hugely unpopular cuts are announced.
(8) The ICT said Tibetans in Ganzi were "renowned for their strong sense of Tibetan identity and nationalism" and had been more politically active than residents of almost any other Tibetan area since the widespread unrest of March 2008, with protests including demonstrations and prayer vigils.
(9) A bill presented in 1940 for a law "on euthanasia for incurable ill persons" found the unanimous consent of the renowned physicians consulted for this purpose.
(10) Where to eat Dom Sancho restaurant, an hour away in the hill village of Sortelha, (Rua do Corro, +351 271 388 267) is renowned for its regional food.
(11) In recent years, Chinese companies have been busy buying up internationally renowned brands and landmarks, including New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel, the former headquarters of Chase Manhattan Bank and, in the UK, the venerable Weetabix.
(12) The tiny nation to the east of the Himalayas has long been renowned for its focus not on GDP – gross domestic product – but GNH ( gross national happiness) .
(13) The renowned US architect Frank Gehry recently completed the Dr Chau Chak Wing building for the University of Technology in Sydney, described by the Australian governor general, Sir Peter Cosgrove, as “the most beautiful squashed brown paper bag I’ve ever seen”.
(14) It was hard to believe this was the Algarve – renowned for beach resorts and golf courses – but we came across nature reserves, like this one at Ria de Alvor , wherever we went.
(15) In 1972 the BBC produced his tale The Stone Tape, a technological ghost story still renowned among aficionados for the twist in its tail.
(16) Ramsey said one of the reasons he resisted offers from other suitors, including Manchester United, was that Arsenal are renowned for giving teenage players plenty of first-team action.
(17) Havel was a renowned playwright and essayist who, after the crushing of the Prague spring in 1968, was drawn increasingly into the political struggle against the Czechoslovakian communist dictatorship, which he called Absurdistan.
(18) Their 12-year stewardship transformed an obscure theatre notorious for the austerity of its seats into a fashionable address renowned for its rollcall of stars - including Ralph Fiennes, Diana Rigg, Juliet Binoche and Cate Blanchett - all of whom were eager to muck in with communal dressing rooms and a minimum wage.
(19) An Islamist-dominated Congress will find it extremely difficult to reach a negotiated settlement with Jathran, given his renowned animosity to the Muslim Brotherhood."
(20) Requests of such kind were sent to the medical faculties of renowned universities.