Example sentences for: notables

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

  • Even RP aficionados will swoon over the old photos and footage of not only Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, and Joey (who does not make an appearance until hour three), but also of such silver-screen notables as Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, and Montgomery Clift.

  • The tombs of notables of the Tang Dynasty, dug into a mountainside (Liangshan) about 80 km (50 miles) northwest of Xi’an, provide an intriguing look at what lies buried around the old capital and at the level of art and culture reached in China during the seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries.

  • Other notables who have praised American place names include Washington Irving (in an essay written in 1839), Walt Whitman, and Stephen Vincent Benét.

  • Other notables in this necessarily brief catalogue of American toponymists include Henry Gannett, working around the turn of the century, who compiled several state gazetteers and a still influential study on the origin of U.S. place names; H. L. Mencken, with several seminal chapters in his American Language (1936); and Kelsie Harder, whose Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names: United States and Canada (1976) remains the most reliable resource for place-name origins.

  • Can't cook, can't sew, can't run a household, can't stand up to her imperious mom and husband, can't make small talk with celebrities or notables, can't run a Fortune 500 company.


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