Example sentences for: notoriety

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

  • Thompson's notoriety has also overshadowed his fine early style.

  • Simpson novel, Another City, Not My Own : "That book [Dunne's own Season in Purgatory ], the miniseries of which he was watching, had brought Gus Bailey and the unsolved murder in Greenwich, Connecticut, which, to avoid a libel suit, he had renamed Scarborough Hill, a great deal of notoriety at the time of its publication, resulting in the reopening of the murder case by the police."

  • She is the most famous person since Helen Keller to achieve her notoriety without uttering a single public word.

  • What more need be said about the name given to Selma's all-black housing project, the Nathan B. Forrest Homes, than what Horwitz dryly observes: "an odd choice, given Forrest's notoriety as a slave trader and Imperial Wizard of the KKK"?

  • Recently, Gessen has filed occasional reports from the Balkans, which is where Misha Glenny gained notoriety.


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