Example sentences for: notoriety

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

  • In 1936, Luce wrote The Women , an unapologetically catty satire of female competition that achieved a lasting notoriety and a venom so pure it was almost guileless.

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

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • 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?"


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