Example sentences for: better-known

How can you use “better-known” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This is an interesting, useful reference book containing information about the better-known writers of America.

  • On the west side of the Plaça Major is Plaça de Marqués Palmer; sandwiched among chic leather and footwear shops are two excellent examples of modernista (Catalan Art Nouveau) architecture: Can Forteza Rei and L’Àguila, whose iron grill work and broken-tile flourishes are similar to better-known modernista buildings found in Barcelona.

  • Its name was first written down as betcherrygah , that being a transliteration of the Yuwaalaraay word gijirrigaa (Yuwaalaraay being a language similar to the better-known Kamilaroi), but the temptation to explain the word had triumphed over the etymologizing process as early as 1848, when the spelling budgery garr was preferred, and the first element explained as meaning in the black's language--good or handsome.

  • One of the world's better-known conceptual artists, she's been testing out different media ever since she put her oddball "Truisms" into bus stops in the 1970s.

  • Could your contributor, notwithstanding his correct identification of the background to Three Men on the Bummel , be confusing it with the better-known Three Men in a Boat , where the scenery is decidedly fluvial?


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