Example sentences for: famously

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

  • Even The Nation , famously defensive on the question of Hiss, calls the biography "an honest and indispensable book that goes a long way toward restoring to Chambers an elementary human plausibility" (gosh, thanks).

  • Two of Merriam-Webster III's weirdest definitions are the famously convoluted wordings at the main senses of door and hotel .

  • 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.

  • Masculinity was allowed no erotic range in dress; the phallic necktie, licensed to reflect light and glow with color, was famously men's only hope.

  • A footnote to the verify-your-references anecdote may interest readers, since the two participants in that famously anticlimactic exchange (Martin Joseph Routh, then aged about 92, and John William Burgon, then about 34) are celebrated for other reasons.


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