Example sentences for: notoriety

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

  • Yousef 's instant notoriety as the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing inspired KSM to become involved in planning attacks against the United States.

  • 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"?

  • The package is by populist muckrakers Donald Barlett and James Steele, who won fame and notoriety for their 1996 Philadelphia Inquirer series "America: Who Stole the Dream?"

  • Lewinsky did not choose her notoriety.

  • Accused Florida serial-killer Aileen Wuornos did talk to him, but, as the movie also demonstrated, she was sadly ill-equipped to judge who was exploiting her notoriety and who might help her out.


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