Example sentences for: notoriety

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

  • Where once I saw a man struggling rather nobly with tragedy, I now see someone trapped on the merry-go-round of notoriety.

  • 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.

  • However, Goldhagen's book, Hitler's Willing Executioners, which imputes homicidal anti-Semitic impulses to most of Germany's World War II population, has earned him notoriety and worldwide speaking engagements but not, as yet, tenure.

  • 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.

  • Just round the corner, on Calle Empedrado (at no. 207), you’ll find the atmospheric bar-restaurant La Bodeguita del Medio (see page 41), which according to Hemingway served Havana’s finest mojito (management apparently believes the notoriety is worth an extra two dollars per drink).


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