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

Lincolnshire farmers have been imported, and the long, fresh slopes are sheep-walks no more, but grow famous turnips and barley.

From Tom Brown's School Days by Hughes, Thomas

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 Disraeli, Isaac

I should like to grow famous, and make myself a name.”

From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by Fenn, George Manville

"One word, Mary," she said; "if you grow famous, no marrying—mind!"

From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various