Example sentences for: renown

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

  • The town itself has a picture-postcard appeal — whitewashed houses with red-tile roofs and balconies filled with flowers sit along neat rows of cobblestone streets — and the residents here are renown for their gentle friendliness and understated hospitality.

  • The shops of greatest renown are along the EN 125 route.

  • Throughout the 17th century, the picturesque mountain village of San Sebastián was one of the most populated towns in Mexico, renown for its mining activity.

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

  • Sir Walter Scott and Robert Adam are here, but you will also find individuals such as Neil Gow, a virtuoso fiddler of great renown in his own lifetime (1727–1807).


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