famous

Example Sentences

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For the most part, however, until Jesse was famous, he shunned his son, who was later adopted by the man his mother married, Charles Jackson.

From Los Angeles Times

He said writer Denis O'Neill had wanted "footballers doing the football" and he had had the "very good fortune" to take part alongside some famous names including Duvall.

From BBC

Some noncoastal ad firms as a result are more aggressively pitching themselves as the friendly antithesis to faceless, famous agencies, now embracing rather than apologizing for their lack of metropolitan elitism.

From The Wall Street Journal

Four years later, Jackson graduated and moved to Chicago, where he trained to become a religious leader and was noticed by King, the country's most famous civil rights leader.

From BBC

I remember very well the return of the veterans of Afghanistan and the famous phrase from the bureaucrats: 'I'm not the one who sent you there'.

From Barron's