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Example sentences for: renown

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Christopher Columbus, not yet a sailor of any renown, sailed to Madeira on an assignment to buy sugar cane.
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.
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.
As debate about the Holocaust unfolded, Bettelheim's initial renown as a heroic witness gave way to cloudier repute as a blamer of victims.
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.