grow famous

Example Sentences

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He started not only to invite but to heed Batting Coach Billy DeMars' counsel and also began to grow famous.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I wonder how many pictures I'll have to paint before I begin to grow famous?"

From Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) by Various

As for their Transactions and their History, he thinks “they purpose to grow famous, as the Turks do to gain Paradise, by treasuring up all the waste paper they meet with.”

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

And I say to her, 'My beloved, my queen, you and I will be married and we will work together and grow famous and rich.'

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben

I should like to grow famous, and make myself a name.”

From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by Fenn, George Manville