Example sentences for: notoriety

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

  • Then Webster goes on to hint at the notoriety of the Tories by tracing the word Tory back to an Irish word meaning robber or bandit.

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

  • 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?"

  • The modern Christian sex advice business dates to 1973, when the evangelical Marabel Morgan achieved brief notoriety for The Total Woman . Morgan famously suggested that wives spice up their marriage by greeting their husbands at the door wearing nothing but Saran Wrap--a seduction attempted with sad consequences for Kathy Bates in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes . James Dobson, founder of the evangelical group Focus on the Family, published a sex-and-marriage book in 1975.

  • I don't write for the money, and I don't write for the notoriety, so giving them up wouldn't hurt.


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