Example sentences for: renown

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

  • In addition to being a financial prognosticator of some renown, Dr. Ed Yardeni, chief global economist and investment strategist for Deutsche Bank Securities in New York, is a film critic.

  • It achieved international renown for its almost brutally uncompromising performances of classical avant-garde and experimental theater.

  • He would "live alone in the bee-loud glade," as he put it in "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (1890), one of the early poems that established his renown.

  • Christopher Columbus, not yet a sailor of any renown, sailed to Madeira on an assignment to buy sugar cane.

  • 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.


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