grow famous
Example Sentences
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He started not only to invite but to heed Batting Coach Billy DeMars' counsel and also began to grow famous.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then she would keep him company in his studio, for he must work and grow famous.
From Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) by Ren? de Pont-Jest
And I say to her, 'My beloved, my queen, you and I will be married and we will work together and grow famous and rich.'
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht
The name of Caratacus being brought out of the Iles was alreadie spred ouer the prouinces adioining, and began now to grow famous through Italie.
From Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England by Raphael Holinshed
As for their Transactions and their History, he thinks “they purpose to grow famous, as the Turks do to gain Paradise, by treasuring up all the waste paper they meet with.”
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
