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Example sentences for: illustrious

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With views across the city below it is a popular spot for photographs, however it also has a long and illustrious history.
This devil-may-care attitude to the quaint rules of English spelling follows firmly in the illustrious footsteps (or perhaps penstrokes) of the greatest Latin lover of them all, Giacomo Casanova.
Just one small detail that might have given Dole and his illustrious advisers a moment's pause: The appropriations measures, while restrained by recent standards, nonetheless weigh in at probably $16 billion over the target the GOP Congress set for domestic discretionary spending only a year ago.
It has seen such illustrious guests as Winston Churchill and Agatha Christie, who wrote her thriller Death on the Nile while staying here.
The Botanical Gardens have a long and illustrious history.