Example sentences for: famously

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

  • Most famously, Alec was arrested--and later acquitted--for allegedly punching a paparazzo and spraying shaving cream on the photographer's car windows.

  • This may seem odd, for Mehta is reputed to be a very dull writer whereas Ross is a famously zippy one.

  • Moses died on the journey to the Promised Land, but Joshua took over from him, and between 1400 b.c. and 1000 b.c. the tribes of Israel conquered all the lands north and south of Jerusalem, most famously bringing the walls of Old Jericho tumbling down with the sounds of their horns.

  • Of the three commercial anchors, Peter Jennings is Canadian, and has that randy gaze that makes men hide their wives; Tom Brokaw looks too boyish, and has a speech impediment; and Dan Rather is famously nuts.

  • The modern Christian sex advice business dates to 1973, when the evangelical Marabel Morgan achieved brief notoriety for The Total Woman . Morgan famously suggested that wives spice up their marriage by greeting their husbands at the door wearing nothing but Saran Wrap--a seduction attempted with sad consequences for Kathy Bates in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes . James Dobson, founder of the evangelical group Focus on the Family, published a sex-and-marriage book in 1975.


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