Example sentences for: renown

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

  • As debate about the Holocaust unfolded, Bettelheim's initial renown as a heroic witness gave way to cloudier repute as a blamer of victims.

  • Among its masterpieces of international renown are The Adoration of St. Vincent, a multi-panel work attributed to the 15th-century Portuguese master, Nuno Gonçalves, and The Temptation of St. Anthony, a fantastic hallucination by Hieronymus Bosch, tempered with humor and executed with mad genius.

  • The loveliest beach is San Agustinillo; the most renown is Zipolite, for its acceptance of nude sunbathing.

  • When the zoo celebrated the first successful hatching in captivity of a king penguin in 1919, it gained world renown: no other zoo had examples of this penguin species.

  • Not even Shakespeare's renown and grace is dead or that cannot be so neither would get by.


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